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NO. 123-A FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPECIAL TO AUSTRALIAN NEWS SERVICE

The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia is lending Bonnard's The

Siesta, once owned by Leo and Gertrude Stein, to The Museum of Modern Art in

New York for a major show this winter in which all the works once owned by the

Steins will be reassembled for the first time.

FOUR AMERICANS IN PARIS: THE COLLECTIONS OF GERTRUDE STEIN AND HER FAMILY,

sponsored by Alcoa Foundation, will include more than 200 paintings, drawings,

and sculptures collected by this extraordinary American family when they were

living in Paris before and after World War I.

The Steins were early patrons of Picasso and Matisse and other artists

who were to become world famous. As they traded pictures among themselves and also

frequently sold in order to buy a more recent work (or sometimes when they were short

of funds) many pictures passed through their hands. Eventually the entire collec

tion was dispersed. The Museum of Modern Art has borrowed works from 90 lenders

including two pictures from the Hermitage in Leningrad for the exhibition.

FOUR AMERICANS IN PARIS: THE COLLECTIONS OF GERTURDE STEIN AND HER FAMILY

iso celebrates and illuminates the personalities of this family. Documentary

photographs, a model of a house Michael and Sarah Stein commissioned Le Corbusier

to build and needlepoint designs drawn by Picasso and executed by Alice B. Toklas,

Gertrude Stein's life-long companion and secretary, are among the memorabilia

which will be shown.

After whe New York showing (December 19-March 1, 1971) the exhibition will

ba seen in slightly different versions at the San Francisco Museum of Art and

.. .. Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Adciicio:.... information available from Elizabeth Shaw, Director, Department of Public Information, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, New York 10019. Tel: (212) 956-7501.

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NO. 123-D FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPECIAL TO BUFFALO NEWSPAPERS

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo, New York is lending Picasso's Family

Supper, once owned by Leo and Gertrude Stein, to The Museum of Modern Art for a

major show this winter in which all the works once owned by the Steins will be

reassembled for the first time,


sponsored by Alcoa Foundation, will include more than 200 paintings, drawings and

sculptures collected by this extraordinary American family when they were living in

Paris before and after World War I.

The Steins were early patrons of Picasso and Matisse and other artists who

were to become world famous. As they traded pictures among themselves and also

frequently sold in order to buy a more recent work (or sometimes when they were

short of funds) many pictures passed through their hands. Eventually the entire

collection was dispersed. The Museum of Modern Art has borrowed works from 90 lenders


FOUR AMERICANS IN PARIS:' THE COLLECTIONS OF CERTRUDE STEIN AND HER FAMILY

also celebrate! and illuminates the personalities of this family. Documentary

photographs, a model of a house Michael and Sarafi Stein commissioned Le Corbusier

co build and needlepoint designs drawn by Picasso and executed by Alice B. Toklas,

Gertrude Stein's life-long companion and secretary, are among the memorabilia which

will be shown.

After the New York showing (December 19-March 1, 1971) the exhibition will

b« seen in slightly different versions at the San Francisco Museum of Art and the

Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Additional information available from Elizabeth Shaw, Director, Department of Public Information, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, New York 10019. Tel: (2x2) 956-7501.

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NO. 123-E FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPECIAL TO HOUSTON NEWSPAPERS

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Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby of Houston, Texas and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are

lending works by Picasso, once owned by Leo and Gertrude Stein, to The Museum of

Modern Art in New York for a major show this winter in which all the works once

owned by the Steins will be reassembled for the first time. Mrs. Hobby is lending

a 1904 gouache, Boy with a Milk Can, while The Museum-of Fine Arts is lending Two

Nudes, a 1906 charcoal drawing given to that museum by former Governor and Mrs. W.P.

Hobby.



sculptures collected by this extraordinary American family when they were living

in Paris before and after World War I.







FOUR AMERICANS IN PARIS: THE COLLECTIONS OF GERTRUDE STEIN AND HER FAMILY

also celebrates and illuminates the personalities of this family. Documentary

^ocographs, a model of a house Michael and Sarah Stein commissioned Le Corbusier

:o build and needlepoint designs drawn by Picasso and executed by Alice B. Toklas,


will be shown.


be seen in slightly different versions at the San Francisco Museum of Art and the


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Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil of St. Louis, Missouri are lending Picasso's Seated

Woman (1904) and Seated Nude, Seen from Back (1906), both once owned by Leo and

Gertrude Stein, to The Museum of Modern Art in New York for a major show this win

ter in which all the works once owned by the Steins will be reassembled for the

first time.




in Paris before and after World War I*





collection was dispersed. The Museum of Modern Art has borrowed works from 90 len

ders including two pictures from the Hermitage in Leningrad for the exhibition.






will be shown.




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Additional information available from Elizabeth Shaw, Director, Department of Public Information, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, New York 10019. Tel: (212) 956-7501.

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The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey is lending Picasso's

The Bath, once owned by Leo and Gertrude Stein, to The Museum of Modern Art for a

major show this winter in which all the works once owned by the Steins will be

reassembled for the first time.
















will be shown.




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NO. 123-H FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPECIAL TO PROVIDENCE NEWSPAPERS

The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Is lending

Picasso's Standing Nude, once owned by Leo and Gertrude Stein, to The Museum of

Modern Art in New York for a major show this winter in which all the works once

owned by the Steins will be reassembledfor the first time. The drawing was a gift

to the Museum of Art in Providence from Mrs. Murray S. Danforth.
















will be shown.




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Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows of Dallas, Texas are lending Renoir's Bather, once

owned by Leo and Gertrude Stein, to The Museum of Modern Art in New York for a major

show this winter in which all the works once owned by the Steins will be reassembled

for the first time.






were to become world famous. As they traded pictures among themselves and also fre

quently sold in order to buy a more recent work *(or sometimes when they were short

of funds) many pictures passed through their hands. Eventually the entire collection

was dispersed. The Museum of Modern Art has borrowed works from 90 lenders including

two pictures from the Hermitage in Leningrad for the exhibition.

FOUR AMERICANS IN PARIS: THE COLLECTIONS OF GERTRUDE STEIN AND HER FAMILY also

celebrates and illuminates the personalities of this family. Documentary photographs,

a model of a house Michael and Sarah Stein commissioned Le Corbusier to build and

needlepoint designs drawn by Picasso and executed by Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein's

life-long companion and secretary, are among the memorabilia which will be shown.

After the New York showing (December 19-March 1, 1971) the exhibition will be

seen in slightly different versions at the San Francisco Museum of Art and the


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Robert Ardrey and Helen Johnson Ardrey of Norman, Oklahoma are lending Matisse's

Nude before a Screen, a painting once owned by Michael and Sarah Stein, to The

Museum of Modern Art for a major show this winter in which all the works once

owned by the Steins will be reassembled for the first time. Brought by the Steins

to San Francisco in 1906, this painting was in the first group of works by Matisse

to be seen in the United States.





The Steins were early patrons of Picasso "and Matisse and other artists who






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will be shown.



Baltimore Museum of Art. ,

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NO. 123-C FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SPECIAL TO OKLAHOMA NEWSPAPERS

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Dr. and Mrs. Norman F. Laskey of Mt. Kisco, New York are lending Matisse's Woman

with a Branch of Ivy (L'ltalienne), a painting once owned by Michael and Sarah

Stein, to The Museum of Modern Art for a major show this winter in which all the

works once owned by the Steins will be reassembled for the first time.




in Paris before and after World War I.




short of funds) many pictures/ passed through their hands. Eventually the entire



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Gertrude Stein's life-long companion and secretary, are among the memorabilia

which will be shown.




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