Hardcover. 12mo, in cream canvas-like cloth with applied watercolor reproduction to the front board in color. Light blue end papers. Includes four black and white reproductions of Miller's artwork. 56 pp. Colophon limitation page is signed by Miller and numbered 179 of 285 copies. Designed and printed by Noel Young for Capra Press, August 1973.
Dedicated to American watercolor artist Emil Schnellock (1890-1942), a childhood friend of the Author who was also an important correspondent and literary mentor to Henry Miller during the period of his voluntary exile in Paris in the 1930's.
Henry Miller, the author of more than 36 works, is best known for his controversial 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, which, along with Tropic of Capricorn, chronicled Miller's life as an expatriate in Paris (1930-1939). First published in France, the works resulted in a 30-year censorship debate (which Miller later finally won) in the U.S. over their sexual candor and concern for self-realization.
In 1929, Miller began writing his novel Crazy Cock (1981) and around this time also started to develop a passion for painting watercolors. His old friend Emil Schnellock, n advertising artist who had a studio in New York City, introduced him to Italian art and Walter Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance, and Miller read Elie Faure's History of Art. In December 1934, Henry and June Miller divorced, and Henry hoped to marry Anaïs Nin, with whom he had become involved in Paris. Miller followed Nin to New York in 1935 and while there finished Black Spring (1936), which included a description of himself painting a watercolor in the passage "The Angel Is My Watermark." Nin returned to Paris in May 1935, and Miller followed in October and began work on Tropic of Capricorn (1939).
After his travels in Europe and America, Miller moved to California in 1942. Although his books were selling well in Europe, he was not receiving his royalties because of the war. But his reputation as a watercolor painter was becoming established; in 1943, he earned $1400 from sales of his paintings. His passion for painting continued and though often overshadowed by his literary legacy, he is estimated to have painted over 2,000 watercolors during his lifetime.
Hardcover. 12mo, in cream canvas-like cloth with applied watercolor reproduction to the front board in color. Light blue end papers. Includes four black and white reproductions of Miller's artwork. 56 pp. Colophon limitation page is signed by Miller and numbered 179 of 285 copies. Designed and printed by Noel Young for Capra Press, August 1973.
Dedicated to American watercolor artist Emil Schnellock (1890-1942), a childhood friend of the Author who was also an important correspondent and literary mentor to Henry Miller during the period of his voluntary exile in Paris in the 1930's.
Henry Miller, the author of more than 36 works, is best known for his controversial 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, which, along with Tropic of Capricorn, chronicled Miller's life as an expatriate in Paris (1930-1939). First published in France, the works resulted in a 30-year censorship debate (which Miller later finally won) in the U.S. over their sexual candor and concern for self-realization.
In 1929, Miller began writing his novel Crazy Cock (1981) and around this time also started to develop a passion for painting watercolors. His old friend Emil Schnellock, n advertising artist who had a studio in New York City, introduced him to Italian art and Walter Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance, and Miller read Elie Faure's History of Art. In December 1934, Henry and June Miller divorced, and Henry hoped to marry Anaïs Nin, with whom he had become involved in Paris. Miller followed Nin to New York in 1935 and while there finished Black Spring (1936), which included a description of himself painting a watercolor in the passage "The Angel Is My Watermark." Nin returned to Paris in May 1935, and Miller followed in October and began work on Tropic of Capricorn (1939).
After his travels in Europe and America, Miller moved to California in 1942. Although his books were selling well in Europe, he was not receiving his royalties because of the war. But his reputation as a watercolor painter was becoming established; in 1943, he earned $1400 from sales of his paintings. His passion for painting continued and though often overshadowed by his literary legacy, he is estimated to have painted over 2,000 watercolors during his lifetime.