Gertrude Stein Gauguin, Cezanne, and many others serious writer behind it. It recounts the Expatriate writer, Literary salon host overflowed into every room of the development and significance of (1874-1946) household. Gertrude Stein’s complex personal relationships with her brother Leo, with Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 and Many artists, writers, and critics Alice B. Toklas, with Picasso, as well as soon became aware that she was became frequent callers at Gertrude’s her artistic relationships with the destined to “create the 20th century.” apartment (known as "27") for the Cubists and the writers of the Lost Raised in Europe and the new frontier Saturday night dinner parties. After Generation. It also describes her state of California, Gertrude never lost meeting Picasso, Gertrude and the profoundly symbolic relationship with the sense of being a pioneer. Shortly artist became close friends for many America, with France, with “inside and after the turn of the century, Gertrude years. In 1905 she agreed to sit for the outside reality,” and with personality accompanied her brother Leo to now famous portrait. and the nature of genius. These themes Paris—she would not return to are related to the development of America for almost 30 years. By the time of her death in 1946, Gertrude’s writing and the creation of Gertrude and Leo were said to be the Gertrude had become a legend–she legend in the life of the woman who saw happiest couple on the Left Bank until had been painted, sculptured and herself as “the most important thinker” the advent of another young American, photographed by the most famous of her time. Alice B. Toklas, with whom Gertrude artists of her time. Her apartments at formed a companionship that lasted rue de Fleurus, and later at rue Some thoughts from Gertrude Stein: forty years. They called each “Lovey” Christine, were landmarks in Paris. and “Pussy” and, until Gertrude’s “People…take their literature and art death, Alice deciphered her almost from the past. They are not interested Although her book The Auto- illegible handwriting, typed her in what the present generation is biography of Alice B. Toklas became a manuscripts, and supervised the thinking or painting or doing if it best seller, and in spite of the fact that household in Paris and their country doesn’t fit the enclosure of their she was admired by authors and home in Bilignin. personal apprehension. Present day critics, to much of the public Gertrude geniuses can no more help doing what Stein was an eccentric best known for they are doing than you can help not a line – “Rose is a rose is a rose is a Gertrude’s brother Leo became an art understanding it, but if you think we do rose” – that was famous for its collector after arriving in Paris and it for effect, and to make a sensation, obscurity. Gertrude followed his lead. Their you’re crazy.” home became known as the "Salon," - Gertrude Stein, in John Malcolm Gertrude’s biography, Everybody with paintings literally covering all the Brinnin, The Third Rose (1959) Who Was Anybody tells the story of wall space in their modest living the public personality and the deeply “Everybody knows if you are too careful quarters. Paintings by Picasso, Renoir, you are so occupied in being careful Whole Woman’s Health of Austin 8401 N. 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Toklas, interview by thing is nothing is really very Mortimer Adler (1976) frightening.” - Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Gertrude Stein’s works include: Autobiography (1937) Three Lives, 1909 Tender Buttons, 1914 “Everybody gets so much information Geography and Plays, 1922 all day long that they lose their The Making of Americans, 1925 common sense.” Four Saints in Three Acts, 1929 - Gertrude Stein (1946), in Elizabeth The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Sprigge. Gertrude Stein (1957) 1933 The Geographical History of America, “Repeating is the whole of living and 1936 by repeating comes understanding, Ida, A Novel, 1941 and understanding is to some the most The Mother of Us All, 1949 important part of living.” Patriarchal Poetry, 1953 - Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (1925) “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.” Whole Woman’s Health of Austin 8401 N. 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