Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/5340a2e6938e54f2a2edf4ed30b12a0a

Title

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

Creator

Sir Francis Cyril Rose, 1909 - 1979
Gertrude Stein, 3 Feb 1874 - 27 Jul 1946
Alice Babette Toklas, 30 Apr 1877 - 7 Mar 1967

Date

1939

Description

The manor house at Bilignin was picture-book France, old and full of character. Its living room walls were paneled and decorated with paintings of musical instruments; tall windows with outside shutters opened up to the terrace garden. When the English artists Cecil Beaton and Francis Rose came for a visit in the summer of 1939, they were so taken by the beauty of this room and its four occupants—Stein, Toklas, and the two dogs, Basket and Pépé—that they both made images of it. Beaton’s photograph shows Stein at her writing desk, and Rose’s drawing offers a genre scene of marital harmony: Toklas knitting in a wicker chair and Stein reading in her favorite rocker.

Subject

Art
Artwork
Writers
Dress accessories
Home Furnishings
Windows
Flowers
Eyeglasses
Bouquet
Design
Sofa
Art Patron
Chairs
Education
Seating
Domestic
Novelists
Nature
Women
Literature
Architecture
Interior decoration
Portraits
Ecology
Plants
Lecturer
Educators
Furnishings
Animals
Art Collector
Costume
Dogs
Rocking chair
Librettist
Poets
Toklas, Alice Babette
Rose, Francis Cyril
Stein, Gertrude
Furniture
Chair
Dress Accessory
Window
Nature & Environment
Plant
Flower
Interior
Animal
Dog
Alice Babette Toklas
Female
Writer
Educator
Gertrude Stein
Poet
Visual Arts
Novelist
Portrait

Source

Smithsonian Institution

Relation

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NPG-NPG_91_175Stein_Toklas-000001

Type

image

References

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=npg_NPG.91.175&repo=DPLA

Citation

Sir Francis Cyril Rose, 1909 - 1979, Gertrude Stein, 3 Feb 1874 - 27 Jul 1946, and Alice Babette Toklas, 30 Apr 1877 - 7 Mar 1967, “Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed August 9, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/27632.

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