France

...gained entry into the artistic set in Montparnasse. Returning to Paris after the war, he became a kind of Boswell to the artistic and social elite in France and, to a lesser extent, Britain. In three volumes of memoirs, he left sharp...

In this article: Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Balthus, Paris, Wesleyan University, and Gertrude Stein

...B. Toklas leave for Chicago on November 7, 1934. Gertrude Stein, the rotund godmother of modernism, returned to the United States from her home in France for the first time in three decades. At 60, after years of writing fiercely obscure and...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Chicago, Alice B. Toklas, Turtle soup, Virgil Thomson, Lincoln Park, Chicago Magazine, New York, and Piece montee

During their interlude in Majorca, Spain, Gertrude continued her correspondence with Mildred Aldrich who kept her apprised of the War's progression, and eventually inspired Gertrude and Alice to return to France to join the war effort.

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Leo Stein, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Paris, Judy Grahn, Juan Gris, and Alice B. Toklas Cookbook

...and also a handful of American women who had married into the French aristocracy. The most famous of the roughly 2,000 Americans in France during the war included Josephine Baker, who became a hero of the Gaullist resistance, Gertrude Stein...

In this article: Paris and Sylvia Beach

Here she met the author William Seabrook. They often socialized with Ford Maddox Ford, Sinclair Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and Walter Duranty while in France. In 1932, Seabrook and Worthington went to...

In this article: William Seabrook, New York City, Suicide, Cosmopolitan, Cancer, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Gertrude Stein

Way back in 1954, Alice B Toklas did just that. The lover of avant garde writer Gertrude Stein penned a cookbook, fabulously recreating the flavours of their long life together in France. Stein was the clever, demanding "husband"; wifey...

In this article: Ruth Reichl, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Alice B Toklas, Madhur Jaffrey, Idi Amin, Wedding cake, Stew, Mashed potato, and Shepherd's Pie

...from 1910 to 1917. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War I, in which he was injured, he studied music in France, first in Lyon, then in Paris at the Schola Cantorum, also meeting Gertrude Stein. Returning to the United...

In this article: John Jacob Niles, World War I, Appalachian, Trademark, Christmas song, Pretty Polly, I Wonder as I Wander, Barbara Allen, It Ain't Me Babe, and Schola Cantorum

Marguerite was born in Santa Rosa, California. She travelled to France where she attended the post-impressionist school La Palette and associated with Pablo Picasso and expatriate Gertrude Stein. In 1912 she married sculptor William Zorach and...

In this article: Marguerite Thompson Zorach, William Zorach, Logan Medal of the arts, Bates College, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, United States, New England, Palestine, and New York

Among Davidson's commissions are a design for a United States War Industries badge, a collection of pieces for the Government of France to commemorate the first victory of the Troupes de Marine and bronze busts of the leaders of the Allies.

In this article: Jo Davidson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gertrude Stein, Robert M. La Follette, E. W. Marland, Lincoln Steffens, Henry A. Wallace, and Walt Whitman