Gertrude Stein

Artist Carl Van Vechten (American, 1880 - 1964)

DateNovember 4, 1934

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 14 x 11 inches (35.56 x 27.94 cm)
Framed: 22 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches (56.52 x 47.63 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.4504

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DescriptionPortrait of a woman (Gertrude Stein) in profile, facing the right side of the frame.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten (formerly "A Privileged Eye: Photographs of Carl Van Vechten"). The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 6, 1992- January 10, 1993, Detroit Institute of Arts, May 12 - July 3, 1993, Knoxville Museum of Art, July 24 - September 26, 1993, Carl Van Vechten Gallery at Fisk University, Nashville, TN, October 31, 1993 - January 9, 1994, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, January 30 - March 13, 1994, San Francisco Performing Arts Center, April 17 - May 29, 1994, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, August 3 - September 18, 1994, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN, October 9 - November 27, 1994, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA, March 31 - May 21, 1995, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 16 - September 4, 1995, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, GA, December 5, 1995 – January 28, 1996, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, June 22 - August 17, 1997.

The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI, August 29 - October 16, 2005, no cat.

In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 8 - June 15, 2008, no cat.

Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 12 - September 6, 2012, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 14, 2011 - January 22, 2012, hors cat.

Gallery Label

Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the American avant-garde writer Gertude Stein (1874-1946) lived most of her life in France, where she regularly associated with sell-known vangauard artists and writers of the day, including the painters Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, and the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Her difficult and abstract works include Tender Buttons (1914) and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933).

Provenance

George R. Rinhart, Palm Springs, CA;
Purchased from George Rihart by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1989;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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