The Birthplace of Venus -- Black Velvet Art -- Billboards, Tahiti, and the Great Depression -- The Rascal in the South Pacific -- The Black Velvet Painter Storms the Art World -- The Wild Man Falls in Love -- These Moans Could Have Been Ejaculations -- Settling Down and Moving Up -- The Winds of War -- The Better Heaven -- War Comes to Tahiti -- Papeete, Painting and Pleasure in Paradise -- Old Friends and New -- Stability and Stardom -- Big Time Artist, Big Time Problems -- Aquarium, Admiral, American Club of Tahiti -- Burnout, Barney and Booze -- Death of a Legend -- Legacy Under Fire -- Epilogue.