ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GRAPHICS
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STEIN, GERTRUDE American author born Oakland, California, 1874 - 1946
PHOTO: Alfred Langdon Coburn, 1913.
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“When this you see remember me.”
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Below, Gertrude Stein with her dog Pepe, writing “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,” 1932.
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TURKEY AND BONES AND EATING AND WE LIKED IT A Play by Gertrude Stein
He was very restless. He does not like to stand while he picks flowers. He does not smell flowers. He has a reasonable liking for herbs. He likes their smell. He is not able to see storms. He can see anything running. He has been able to be praised.
Below, Dale Meador and Bill Wolf, as Anthony and Cleopatra, in “Turkey and Bones and Eating and We Liked It,” San Francisco, 1972.
Anthony and Cleopatra
Do you like him. I must go and see the workingmen. Do you like them they are giving our son a knife. Whom does he resemble. The son resembles his mother. Don’t say it. Why not. Because the father does not prefer to hear it. He prefers to hear that the son resembles him. The son resembles him but he looks like his mother. They wish him to have every advantage.
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Below, Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson examine the score for “Four Saints in Three Acts,” 1929.
FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS
An Opera Libretto by Gertrude Stein Music by Virgil Thompson
To know to know to love her so. Four saints prepare for saints. It makes it well fish. Four saints it makes it well fish. Four saints prepare for saints it makes it well well fish it makes it well fish prepare for saints. In narrative prepare for saints. Prepare for saints. Two saints. Four saints. Two saints prepare for saints it two saints prepare for saints in prepare for saints.
Saint Teresa seated and not standing half and half of it and not half and half of it seated and not standing surrounded and not seated and not seated and not standing and not surrounded and not surrounded and not not not seated not seated not seated not surrounded not seated and Saint Ignatius standing standing not seated Saint Teresa not standing not standing and Saint Ignitius not standing standing surrounded as if in once yesterday. In place of situations. Saint Teresa could be very much interested not only in settlement Saint Settlement and this is not with with this wither wither they must be additional. Saint Teresa having not commenced.
Saint Placide. How many windows are there in it. Saint Theresa. How many windows and doors and floors are there in it. Saint Theresa. How many doors how many floors and how many windows are there in it. Saint Plan. How many windows are there in it how many doors are there in it. Saint Chavez. How many doors are there in it how many floors are there in it how many doors are there in it how many windows are there in it how many floors are there in it how many windows are there in it how many doors are there in it.
Pigeons on the grass alas. Pigeons on the grass alas. Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass. Pigeons large pigeons on the shorter longer yellow grass alas pigeons on the grass. If they were not pigeons what were they. If they were not pigeons on the grass alas what were they. He had heard of a third and he asked about it it was a magpie in the sky. If a magpie in the sky on the sky can not cry if the pigeon on the grass alas can alas and to pass the pigeon on the grass alas and the magpie in the sky on the sky and to try and to try alas on the grass alas the pigeon on the grass the pigeon on the grass and alas. They might be very well very well very well they might be.
Let Lucy Lily Lily Lucy Lucy let Lucy Lucy Lily Lily Lily Lily Lily let Lily Lucy Lucy let Lily. Let Lucy Lily.
Who makes who makes it do. Saint Teresa and Saint Teresa too. Who does and who does care. Saint Chavez to care. Saint Chavez to care. Who may be what is it when it is instead. Saint Plan Saint Plan to may to say to say two may and inclined. Who makes it be what they had as porcelain. Saint Ignatius and left and right laterally be lined. All Saints. To Saints. Four Saints. And Saints. Five Saints. To Saints. Last Act. Which is a fact.
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Below, Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, and Harold McCormick at the Chicago premiere of “Four Saints in Three Acts,” 1934.
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PHOTO: Cecil Beaton
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Below, at her home on the Rue de Fleurus, Paris, sitting beneath her portrait by Pablo Picasso.
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Below: With Alice B. Toklas and their dog Basket, Paris, 1944.
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Below, "Gertrude Stein," by Jo Davidson, bronze, 31" high, 1920.
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