A Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
Date
1948
Credits
- Merle Armitage 14 Designer
- Henry Miller 2 Author
Format
- Book Spread 11
Type of Work
- Finished work 5562
Publishers
Locations Made
- California 256
"For Miller’s short story, A Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, Armitage seems to have decided that the craft of writing was an equally compelling tale as the intended story and thus reproduced the typewritten manuscript with Miller’s hand-written edits intact along with a meandering performance of clown and circus images — many from Armitage’s personal collection including Picasso, Klee, and Chagall — all enclosed in a tent of red and white striped end papers."—https://designobserver.com/feature/merle-armitage-daddy-of-a-sunbaked-modernism/35878
