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.

Key Words

From the Beinecke Digital Images Online database:
 http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/

 

Title Key to private, sound-proof room in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.

Author Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.

Place of origin n.p.

Date undated

Physical Description 1 object. 9 cm.

Genre/Form Artifacts

 

Title [Key to Kensington Gardens].

Date [ca. 1902]

Physical Description 1 key metal 10 cm.

Note Soon after the publication of “The Little White Bird” Barrie was given a private key to Kensington Gardens by the Duke of Cambridge, Ranger of the Gardens.

Summary/Description Engraved J.M.B.

Subject Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937.

Genre/Form Artifacts

 

Note Stein, Gertrude

Part of Key 1945

Call Number YCAL MSS 76

Folder or box number 163 4300

What a {fisher} man!

Scrapbooks kept by Jack Lamb, world-famous bass and fly-fisherman,
who was said to have fished every day for 17 years, straight.
Lamb was hired by Gulf Oil Co. to travel and lecture around Texas and Louisiana.
The 13 scrapbooks, ranging between 1933-1943 document his career
as a professional sportsman and as a commercial photographer,
focusing on sports, wildlife, and car crashes.

Fishing in Barton Springs.

 

 

Scrapbook cover.

 

 

 

Note Will Rogers’ free-flowing, almost Steinian writing style.