"Accompanying Welty's essay are a dozen full-color plates of Hollingsworth paintings she specifically mentions or to which she alludes. An afterword puts the work of Hollingsworth and Welty in the context of time, place, and circumstance. A chronology detailing his many prizes and exhibitions shows Hollingsworth as a rising star whose life was cut short.".

Chiefly illustrated catalog of an exhibition held in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 16 through September 7, 1970.