In This Series Cars That Caught My Eye London and Back Milton N. Kemnitz 1911-2005. A Memoir

Milton N. Kemnitz, 1911-2005

Milton N. Kemnitz, was an artist and an early civil rights and union activist. He was born in Detroit, 31 March 1911 and his interest in automobiles began at an early age. His mother’s cousin was William Metzger, one of the founding fathers of the automobile industry and his uncle was William F. V. Neumann who designed engines and took part in early auto racing. Together these two helped found the American Automobile Association.

He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1933 and took a job as a social worker. He participated in the sit-down strike at the General Motors facility in Flint, and shared a house with Walter and Victor Reuther and Norman Thomas when they founded the Union of Automobile Workers.

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Cars That Caught My Eye

This book is a tribute to Milton's lifelong love of automobiles. There are 94 here—from a 1905 Cadillac Surrey Type Tourer, to a 1990 Mercedes Benz, all lovingly detailed and each a full page size.

“Everyone we knew was excited about cars,” writes Milton Kemnitz in his introduction. He never lost the sense of excitement about cars that was so much a part of his boyhood.

Sample pages:  Detroit Edison, Frazer, Stutz Bearcat

London and Back

Beginning in 1966, Milt and his wife Eddie made a series of trips to Europe. Inspired by the buildings and street scenes, he drew wherever he went. This book consists of more than a hundred beautifully detailed line drawings of English buildings in London, Brighton, York, Lincoln, Oxford, Winchester, Ireland and Scotland and elsewhere that caught his eye. A collector's item.

Sample pages:  Westminster Abbey, Wheatsheaf Pub, Cutty Stark, Brighton West Pier

Hardback. 120 pages

Milton N. Kemnitz 1911-2005. A Memoir

A memoir and appreciation of the Ann Arbor artist by his son, fully illustrated with photographs of his life and art, details of his involvement with the Civil Liberties movement and his time as a Merchant Marine in World War Two when he learned to draw and paint.

A tribute to a talented and prolific artist and to a remarkable, gentle man whose life was a mission to care for the oppresssed, to notice and care for our environment and to appreciate the world around us--whether man-made or natural.