Gertrude Stein was many things: a novelist, poet, playwright, ambulance driver, publisher, and art collector. Most know her today as an eccentric lesbian who wrote eccentric books and kept eccentric company. Most do not know how deeply intertwined these aspects of her life were. Her friends, her writing, her art collecting, and her business were … Continue reading Concurrent Geniuses: Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and the Interests of Friendship
How Gertrude Stein and Other Female Artists Were Able to Find a Publishing Platform After WWI
While exploring Gertrude Stein’s published works in the Robert A. Wilson collection, I found that Stein was featured in four issues of Broom: An International Magazine Of The Arts. Three of these issues contain parts of Stein’s “If You Had Three Husbands”, published throughout January, April, and June of 1922. In addition, Broom published Stein’s … Continue reading How Gertrude Stein and Other Female Artists Were Able to Find a Publishing Platform After WWI
Friends Writing Across an Ocean
Throughout her life, Gertrude Stein had several close friends who doubled as colleagues within the modernist art and literary movement. Mabel Dodge Luhan, a fellow American writer and a famous author in her own right, became a friend of Stein’s during a brief visit to 27 rue de Fleurus in the spring of 1911. Their … Continue reading Friends Writing Across an Ocean
CURATING GERTRUDE STEIN 