By Henry Miller
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Henry Miller' for Henry Valentine Miller (American, 1891-1980) and dated September, 1946.
An unusually bright and whimsical watercolor painted when Miller was fifty-seven years old and living in his rustic cabin on Partington Ridge in California's Big Sur.
This seminal American writer and artist pioneered a literary style that combined elements of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection and surrealist free association. Known for breaking with existing literary forms, he strongly influenced a generation of later writers including Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy...
Category
1940s Expressionist Henry Miller Art
MaterialsWatercolor, Laid Paper, Gouache, Postcard