November 7, 1934

Gertrude Stein

American, 1880 - 1964

Carl Van Vechten began his friendship with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in 1913 in Paris, just before the outbreak of the First World War. A novelist, music critic, and photographer, Van Vechten had a flair for capturing the likenesses of his friends. His thousands of photographs of performers, musicians, actors, and other notables provide a unique chronicle of the cultural life in Europe and the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s.