During Gertrude Stein's career, she had early difficulties getting published, leaving several of her works to be published posthumously. One of the earliest pieces she wrote after leaving medical school faced this fate, a text she titled “Q.E.D.,” which she seems to have placed in a drawer after completion and then forgotten. As described in The … Continue reading Q.E.D. – Questions Ever Deferred
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
Figure 1. Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, and Harold McCormick at the opening of Four Saints in Three Acts, performed by the Chicago Opera Company, November 7, 1934. Unknown photographer for the Chicago American newspaper. Robert A. Wilson Collection, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. In 1934, Gertrude Stein visited America for the first time in … Continue reading A Partially Preserved Night at the Opera
CURATING GERTRUDE STEIN 