Gertrude Stein had no doubt that she was a genius. “I have been the creative literary mind of the century,” she once boasted. “Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me.” Some ...
Gertrude Stein, as Francesca Wade puts it in this masterpiece of biography, was a character of “bewildering contradictions”. Depending on who you spoke to, she was either a genius or a charlatan. A ...
Who was Gertrude Stein? Should she be remembered as a pioneering writer? An early and insightful collector of modern art? A den mother to a 1920s cohort of creatives—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce—for ...
Join the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums to mark the closing of Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life and Writing at George Peabody Library with a performance of French chamber music by ...
Gertrude Stein, once one of the doyennes of American letters, is the center of two concurrent exhibitions in San Francisco. Both tread some familiar territory, like her friendship and patronage of ...
The Making of Americans explores familial identity without any dialogue or concrete plot. It’s often considered Stein’s most experimental work. “I have always loved the rhythm in Stein’s writing,” ...
When Leo Stein first saw Woman with a Hat, he thought it “the nastiest smear of paint” he had ever encountered. But for five weeks, he and Gertrude went to the Grand Palais repeatedly to look at it, ...
Gertrude Stein is famously noted that, “A rose is a rose is a rose.” That was written by Stein as part of the 1913 poem “Sacred Emily.” In the case of McAleer v. Geisinger Medical Center, 2025 Pa.
Now live for bidding through August 28, we’ve rounded up six incredible lots below, which is just a small example of the breadth of works you can explore within the Contemporary Editions sale. Alex ...
Gertrude Stein is part of Andy Warhol's 1980 screenprint series Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, in which the artist depicted 10 people of Jewish faith who he thought to be "geniuses" ...
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