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2 unusual facts about Mary Bookstaver


Mary Bookstaver

Alice B. Toklas jealously demanded Stein burn Bookstaver's letters.

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She carried Gertrude Stein's manuscript 'word portraits' of Matisse and Picasso to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work office at 291 Fifth Avenue, (Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession) and insisted that Stieglitz publish them, which he did in the August 1912 edition of Camera Work, a special edition devoted to Picasso and Matisse.



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