Harry Crosby
Purchase this original watercolor painting and all proceeds go to the Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center—promoting literacy through teaching and learning about the African roots experience, including history and culture, through a dynamic exchange of information, ideas, and creativity.
Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Harry Crosby as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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Purchase this original watercolor painting and all proceeds go to the Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center—promoting literacy through teaching and learning about the African roots experience, including history and culture, through a dynamic exchange of information, ideas, and creativity.
Original 11x17” watercolor portrait of Harry Crosby as featured in The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence. Framed as shown in alternate images. Comes with a copy of the book signed by the illustrator.
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As he appears in the text:
“Caresse Crosby, then Polly Peabody, inventor of the modern bra, was married with two children when she met Harry Crosby, six years her junior, at a picnic in Boston in 1920. Harry threatened to kill himself if she didn’t divorce her husband, marry him, and change her first name so it formed ‘a cross‘ with his. In Paris, burning through Harry’s trust fund, the couple founded the iconic Black Sun Press and published some of the first works of Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Anaïs Nin, and Henry Miller. The couple vowed to commit a joint suicide on Halloween of 1942 by jumping out of a plane, but Harry beat her to it, shooting himself and his lover, Josephine, in a New York hotel room in 1929. ”
Read more about The Art of the Affair, by Catherine Lacey and Forsyth Harmon. ︎︎︎
“Caresse Crosby, then Polly Peabody, inventor of the modern bra, was married with two children when she met Harry Crosby, six years her junior, at a picnic in Boston in 1920. Harry threatened to kill himself if she didn’t divorce her husband, marry him, and change her first name so it formed ‘a cross‘ with his. In Paris, burning through Harry’s trust fund, the couple founded the iconic Black Sun Press and published some of the first works of Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Anaïs Nin, and Henry Miller. The couple vowed to commit a joint suicide on Halloween of 1942 by jumping out of a plane, but Harry beat her to it, shooting himself and his lover, Josephine, in a New York hotel room in 1929. ”
Read more about The Art of the Affair, by Catherine Lacey and Forsyth Harmon. ︎︎︎