The Rainbow Minute
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Friday, May 25
It’s Time for “Who Said That?” on this episode of “The Rainbow Minute.”
This avant-garde American writer hobnobbed with the leading writers and artists at her Paris salon during the period between the two World Wars.
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1874, and living her childhood in Oakland, California, she moved to Paris and lived with brother Leo from 1903 to 1912. Both were among the first collectors of works of Cubists and other experimental painters, including Pablo Picasso.
Surviving the German occupation of France despite being Jewish, she befriended many young American soldiers who wanted to meet her.
Within her writings, she is remembered for saying, “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”
Who said that?
It was Gertrude Stein, who lived with her companion Alice B. Toklas until Stein’s death in 1946.
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