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Famous Writers Lay Down Their Pens And Start Painting

| Art and design | June 1, 2012

victor hugo painting town beside a lake

herman hesse painting untitled

aldous huxley painting Maria Nys Huxley at Siesta

e.e. cummings painting mt. chocorua

jack kerouac painting dr. sax

henry miller print from insomnia series

These paintings are all by famous writers: each painting and drawing reflecting something of the authors work, view, as you would expect it too. The series was put together by Melvill house, an independent publisher based in New York.
See if you can guess who did what. Here are the writers whose paintings I have included:

  • ‘Town beside a lake’ by Victor Hugo (1850)
  • ‘Untitled’ by Herman Hesse (1917)
  • ‘Maria Nys Huxley at Siesta’ by Aldous Huxley (1920)
  • ‘Mt. Chocorua’ by E.E. Cummings (1938)
  • ‘Dr. Sax’ by Jack Kerouac (1952)
  • from the Insomnia Series by Henry Miller (1965)

What do you think of them as artists?

Via MHPbooks 

moray mair

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moray mair has written 1483 posts in this blog.

Founder of this skills exchange, obsessive searcher for new art from around the world, producer of arts events and projects, music programmer and retired puppet maker

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