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[Paul Padgette collection of Gertrude Stein photographs and other materials].
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[Paul Padgette collection of Gertrude Stein photographs and other materials]Creator/Contributor:
Padgette, Paul, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, photographer.Abstract:
Original installment: portrait photographs by Carl Van Vechten of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in the 1930s. Includes photographs
taken at Bilignin Villa, Chambery, Stein's home at 27 Rue de Fleurus, in New York, and at University of Virginia and the College
of William and Mary. Also present are a view of Pablo Picasso's home, a portrait of Leo Stein, a photograph of Richard Banks'
1963 painting of Stein, and views of the casts and productions of Four saints in three acts, The Mother of us all, Yes is
for a very young man, Dr. Faustus, Ladies' voices, and Brewsie & Wille.
Later additions: PIC folders: copy photographs of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten; snapshots of a San Francisco Public
Library exhibit on Stein curated by Paul Padgette in 1964; copies of snapshot photographs of Gertrude Stein and Annette Rosenshine
at Stein's home at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris, 1908; snapshots of Alice B. Toklas and Harriet Lane Levy in Italy, 1909; miscellaneous
postcards and greeting cards illustrated with images of Stein. AX folder: photograph of a James Chapin portrait painting of
singer Ruby Greene painted when she performed in Stein's play Four Saints in Three Acts. B folders: oversize portrait photograph
of Stein taken by Van Vechten in 1935; 2 copies of illustrated broadside There There Gertrude Stein. C folders: original hand-lettered
and hand-painted signs used in Padgette's 1964 SFPL exhibit on Stein; poster for Gertrude Stein Memorial Bookshop, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; poster for San Francisco Museum of Art exhibit Four Americans in Paris, 1971; artistic print depicting Stein
and Toklas, "The girls are the girls are the girls", by H. Francis, 1975.
Date:
1908 (issued)Subject:
e-fr---Women authors -- Photographs
Écrivaines -- Photographies
Criticism and interpretation
Homes
Women authors
France
Padgette, Paul -- Archives
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946 -- Portraits
Toklas, Alice B -- Portraits
Stein, Leo -- 1872-1947 -- Portraits
Picasso, Pablo -- 1881-1973 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Pictorial works
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Pictorial works
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946 -- Dramatic works -- Pictorial works
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946
Padgette, Paul
Picasso, Pablo -- 1881-1973
Stein, Gertrude -- 1874-1946
Stein, Leo -- 1872-1947
Toklas, Alice B
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographs by Carl Van Vechten bear his blind stamp. Backs of many items bear ink stamp and/or annotations of collector Paul
Padgette.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARL VAN VECHTEN (Boxes 1-4): RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate
curator.
From the collection of Paul Padgette.
Folder list for restricted Carl Van Vechten prints available in library.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 210 items in 4 boxes, 4 folders and 7 oversize folders : chiefly photographs ; various sizes
Language:
English
Origin:
Various placesCopyright Note:
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARL VAN VECHTEN (Boxes 1-4): RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate
curator.