Surrealist Lee Miller scarves A must-have for cosmic charm

A must-have for cosmic charm with a modern feel

From weaving to whittling

published to coincide with a major solo exhibition at LACMA charts his first influences as a child growing up in an isolated northern town

has such metaphorical richness

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Surrealist Lee Miller scarves A must-have for cosmic charmSurrealist before she knew of the movement Lee Miller was caustically brilliant, yet totally loyal, unpretentious, human and intolerant of sham. She was a consummate artist and a consummate clown; at once an upstate New York hick and cosmopolitan grande dame; a cold, soigne fashion model and a hoyden She was a mechanical tinker, in the sense that her friend [the artist] Alexander Calder once called himself just a tinker. She was the nearest thing I