Contents: Preface; Herkomer's life: a path to success; Herkomer as illustrator and the Graphic magazine; English rustics and Welsh landscapes: Herkomer's early pastoral idylls; ""Romantic and paintable"": Herkomer's Bavarian peasant realism; The Last Muster: a planned triumph; Herkomer's social realism; Herkomer as portraitist; Herkomer in America; Bushey: ""a sleepy picturesque village""; Theatre fantasies and cinema experiments; Herkomer as printmaker; The late years; Conclusion; Epilogue: Herkomer and Vincent van Gogh; Appendix 1 A catalogue of Herkomer's magazine illustrations; Appendix 2 Herman Gustave Herkomer (1862-1935) and his cousin Hubert von Herkomer; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
