SIMON, HOWARD — Cabin on a Ridge

USA, Follett. 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, A 1930s Depresson-era memoir of this painter and book illlustrator author who, due to the times, was unable to make a living in New York and uprooted himself for the next five years to the Ozark Mountains. "In the Ozark Mountains, Howard Simon climbed a mountain and found the boundary of his homestead. The hospitable mountain people helped him build his log cabin, and he settled down to live among them. He shared their simple life, and friends and neighbors became his models in a series of paintings and wood engravings of the people and the surroundings. Usually he made two drawings of a subject; one was for the model. In time there was hardly a mountain cabin for miles around that did not have one or more of the drawings. This is a loving account of the artist's five years of life in the mountains, where he found what he had set out to find: an environment of green, silent beauty, and a chance to draw-and live among-the mountain people. 159pp , Very Good/Very Good.