Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
Identifier
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Title
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
Creator
Sir Francis Cyril Rose, 1909 - 1979
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
Gertrude Stein
Literature
Writer
Novelist
Interior
Domestic
Home Furnishings
Furniture
Seating
Sofa
Female
Dogs
Women
Writers
Librettist
Toklas, Alice Babette
Poet
Lecturer
Poets
Chair
Rocking chair
Novelists
Chairs
Portraits
Costume
Dress Accessory
Eyeglasses
Education
Windows
Artwork
Stein, Gertrude
Nature & Environment
Plant
Flower
Bouquet
Flowers
Plants
Animals
Alice Babette Toklas
Educator
Visual Arts
Art Patron
Architecture
Dress accessories
Animal
Dog
Ecology
Art
Educators
Nature
Window
Art Collector
Portrait
Rose, Francis Cyril
Source
Smithsonian Institution
Relation
Type
image
References
http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID%3Anpg_NPG.91.175&repo=DPLA
Collection
Citation
Sir Francis Cyril Rose, 1909 - 1979, “Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed September 15, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/8615.
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