Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Gertrude

Artist/Maker Red Grooms (United States, b. 1937)

Date1975

Mediumlithograph

DimensionsSheet: 24 x 31 in. (61 x 78.7 cm)

ClassificationsVisual Works

Credit LineGift of Ruth and Richard Shack

Terms

Object number78.017.005

On View

Not on view

Collections

Art of North America

DescriptionGertrude Stein was an American writer and art collector who befriended and supported many of the most important artists of her day. With deadpan humor Grooms has portrayed Stein, whose androgynous appearance was famously painted by Picasso in 1906, sitting in a chintz-covered overstuffed chair. She more closely resembles a kindly, but artless grandmother, than a sophisticated art patron. These lithographs can be cut-out, folded-up, and assembled as a 3-D tableau.