World War I

On the title page of his novel "The Sun Also Rises," published in 1926, he quoted her saying to her circle of creatively disaffected writers, artists and intellectuals in the aftermath of World War I, "You are all a lost generation." In...

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...reasons. Shortly before World War I, Stein and Toklas ended up vacationing together on the Spanish island of Majorca with (by coincidence) Cook and his mistress, a French artist's model and cleaning woman named Jeanne Moallic. Eventually,...

In this article: William Edwards Cook, Gertrude Stein, Le Corbusier, Paris, Alice B. Toklas, Jacques Lipchitz, Balearic Islands, and Majorca

They included writers, artists and intellectuals, black soldiers - many of them jazz players who had stayed on in Paris after the First World War to avoid racial prejudice at home - businessmen, and also a handful of American women who...

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...William Edwards Cook, who was born in Independence in 1881. It was Cook who taught Stein how to drive (so that she could transport supplies for the French during World War I). In her second autobiography, titled Everybody's Autobiography,...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Charles W. Williams, William Edwards Cook, Iowa, Paris, Carl Sandburg, Buchanan County, and Quasqueton

After periods in Pennsylvania and New York, in her mid twenties, Flanner left the United States for Paris, quickly becoming part of the group of American writers and artists who lived in the city between World War I and World War II. As...

In this article: Janet Flanner, Paris, Jean de Koven, New York City, Harold Ross, Jane Grant, World War II, and The New Yorker

Hartley, who was gay, painted Portrait of a German Officer (1914), which was an ode to Karl von Freyburg, his friend Arnold Ronnebeck's cousin and a Prussian lieutenant of whom he became enamored before von Freyburg's death in World War I.

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...of Design announced the rediscovery in its collection of 455 lithographic printed plans for the camouflage of US merchant ships during World War I. These documents were donated to the RISD library in 1919 by one of the school's alumni,...

In this article: Rhode Island School of Design, Norman Wilkinson, World War II, Pablo Picasso, U.S. Shipping Board, British Army, USS Charles S. Sperry, Royal Navy, and RMS Mauretania

...he pronounced his poems. Poems like "schtzngrmm" (his version of the word "Schutzengraben" which describes the trenches of the World War I) can be understood only if read correctly. "" is an experimental poem in which he tells the sounds of...

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