Editing Henry Miller (section)

==Watercolors==
In addition to his literary accomplishments, Miller produced numerous [[watercolor painting]]s and wrote books on this field. He was a close friend of the French painter [[Grégoire Michonze]]. It is estimated that Miller painted 2,000 watercolors during his life, and that 50 or more major collections of Miller's paintings exist.<ref>{{cite web|author=Coast Publishing |title=Henry Miller: The Centennial Print Collection |url=http://www.coastgalleries.com/miller/miller_catalog.pdf |access-date=September 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110323031723/http://www.coastgalleries.com/miller/miller_catalog.pdf |archive-date=March 23, 2011 }}</ref> The [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] holds a selection of Miller's watercolors,<ref>{{cite web|title=Henry Miller: An Inventory of His Art Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center|url=http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead%2F00221.xml|access-date=September 29, 2011|archive-date=March 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301184605/http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead%2F00221.xml|url-status=dead}}</ref> as did the Henry Miller Museum of Art in [[Ōmachi, Nagano|Ōmachi City]] in [[Nagano Prefecture|Nagano]], Japan, before closing in 2001.<ref>{{cite news |title=Henry Miller Art Museum to Close |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20010831b7.html |newspaper=Japan Times |date=August 31, 2001 |access-date=September 26, 2011}}</ref> Miller's daughter Valentine placed some of her father's art for sale in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|author = Miller, Valentine|title=Henry Miller: A Personal Collection|year=2005|url=http://www.henrymiller.info|access-date=September 29, 2011}}</ref> He was also an amateur pianist.<ref>Dearborn, ''The Happiest Man Alive'', p. 291.</ref>