The formative years. Placerville ; San Francisco -- A serious art student. The California School of Design ; Guy Rose, Paris & the Acadamie Julian -- Halcyon days in France. Giverny ; the Paris salon ; Return to the countryside ; Sarah Bernhardt -- A California impressionist. Home to California ; New compositions ; The Chicago World's Fair ; San Francisco midwinter exposition ; Public persona ; Monterey bohemians -- Emotional challenge. Guy Rose and Miss Boardman ; Birth of Elizabeth Stoddard ; Charles Warren Stoddard ; Paternity ; Self-reflection -- Integrating art and identity. The turn of the century ; Carmel-by-the-Sea ; George Sterling -- Evelyn in her forties. Earthquake, April 1906 ; The Hotel Del Monte ; Choosing the Monterey life ; Evelyn and her friends ; World War I and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition -- Evolution of an art style. Europe beckons again ; The Royal Hotel ; Labor in art ; The WPA and the late period ; John Steinbeck ; A few more treasures -- A silent studio
