Gertrude in repose
On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through June 3, 2012: The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.
Gertrude Stein in the Luxembourg Gardens, 1907.
Ogden Nash on Gertrude Stein
Ogden Nash’s “They Don’t Speak English in Paris”, ca. 1935, with his reactions to the increasing
fame and acceptance of Gertrude Stein’s writing (including a crude reference to the all African-American cast
of “Four Saints in Three Acts”)
Ads, Ads, Ads . . . or “Have you learned about mouth-happiness?” (courtesy of Spud cigarettes)
Advertising pages from the September 11, 1933 issue of TIME Magazine, which featured a profile of Gertrude Stein.
Invitation pour deux personnes
. . . which would mean both Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas.
An invitation sent to the couple by Pablo Picasso in 1924.
Visit the Beinecke Library digital library to view what he sketched on the verso.
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