See rare paintings and handwritten from Joni Mitchell's 'Morning Glory on the Vine' book
pondered on what to gift her friends with for Christmas. “All my friends were kind of nouveau riche, so buying Christmas presents was going to be really difficult,” Mitchell said. “I had put the drawings into a ring binder accompanied by handwritten lyrics.”
Nearly 50 years later, Mitchell’s intimate gift was widely released for the first time last month. Titled— a line from Neil Young’s “Motion Pictures ” — the collection features more than 30 original watercolor paintings, handwritten lyrics and poems. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book contains additional art that Mitchell intended to include in 1971.
In the introduction, Mitchell describes going to check on her engineer Henry Ley and his wife Nadine after a fire had spread north of Malibu. “As I walked in, I saw my Christmas book on top of one of the bags,” she wrote. “I couldn’t believe that was one of the things they were saving.” Highlights of the book include the handwritten lyrics to “A Case of You” and “I’m a Radio” and subtle portraits of James Taylor playing the piano and Judy Collins surrounded by flowers.
Mitchell has been slowly venturing out in public since battling health issues in 2015. She recently attended her
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