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*Gertrude Stein*
Gertrude Stein
	The sculpture in 2012
Artist	Jo Davidson
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Bronze
Subject	Gertrude Stein
Location	New York City
	40°45′12″N 73°58′59″W / 40.753351°N 73.983174°W

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Gertrude Stein is an outdoor bronze sculpture of Gertrude Stein, located in Bryant Park in Manhattan in New York City.^[1] The casting was installed in 1992 and is based on a model created by Jo Davidson in Paris in 1923. Its location near the New York Public Library Main Branch commemorates Stein's "significant literary contributions".^[1]

Sculptor Jo Davidson, a friend of Stein from her Paris years, wrote, "She somehow symbolized wisdom", and he depicted her as "a sort of modern Buddha."^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b "Bryant Park: Gertrude Stein". New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved June 23, 2014.

External links

Media related to Gertrude Stein by Jo Davidson at Wikimedia Commons
Story 1: Picturing Gertrude, National Portrait Gallery
Ten Highlights: Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery: Third Floor (PDF)
From the Archives: Gertrude Stein will Watch Over you While you Shop, Bryant Park Corporation

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[P&R-1] "Bryant Park: Gertrude Stein". New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved June 23, 2014.

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-'''''Gertrude Stein''''' is an outdoor [[bronze sculpture]] of [[Gertrude Stein]], located at [[Bryant Park]] in [[Manhattan]], New York.<ref name=P&R>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bryantpark/monuments/1502|title=Bryant Park: Gertrude Stein|accessdate=June 23, 2014|publisher=[[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]]}}</ref> The casting was installed in 1992 and is based on a model created by [[Jo Davidson]] in Paris in 1923. It neighbors the [[New York Public Library Main Branch]], which, according to the [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]], commemorates Stein's "significant literary contributions".<ref name=P&R/>
+'''''Gertrude Stein''''' is an outdoor [[bronze sculpture]] of [[Gertrude Stein]], located in [[Bryant Park]] in [[Manhattan]] in New York City.<ref name="P&R">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bryantpark/monuments/1502|title=Bryant Park: Gertrude Stein|access-date=June 23, 2014|publisher=[[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]]}}</ref> The casting was installed in 1992 and is based on a model created by [[Jo Davidson]] in Paris in 1923. Its location near the [[New York Public Library Main Branch]] commemorates Stein's "significant literary contributions".<ref name="P&R"/>
+Sculptor Jo Davidson, a friend of Stein from her Paris years, wrote, "She somehow symbolized wisdom", and he depicted her as "a sort of modern Buddha."{{cn|date=November 2023}}
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 * [http://blog.bryantpark.org/2011/11/from-archive-gertrude-stein-will-watch.html From the Archives: Gertrude Stein will Watch Over you While you Shop], Bryant Park Corporation
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v t e Gertrude Stein
Fiction	Three Lives (1909) The Making of Americans (1925) Paris France (1940) Ida: A Novel (1941)
Memoirs	The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) Everybody's Autobiography (1937)
Plays	A List (1923)
Poetry	Tender Buttons (1914) If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1924)
Libretto	Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) The Mother of Us All (1947)
Portrayals	Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905-06 painting) Gertrude Stein (1923 statue, cast 1992) Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980 painting) Waiting for the Moon (1987 film) Midnight in Paris (2011 film) 27 (2014 opera) Genius (2018 television series)
Related	Leo Stein (brother) Alice B. Toklas The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book 27 rue de Fleurus "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" Lost Generation Gertrude and Alice (1991 book)