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Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. [1] He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven .
Louis Lorenz Stein Jr. (August 21, 1902 – November 11 1996) was an American pharmacist, California East Bay historian and archivist.He is best known for founding the Arlington Pharmacy in Kensington, California and the pharmacy museum at Columbia State Historic Park and for donating collections of historical materials to various California historical societies and museums.
Stein later returned to the University of Southern California for post-graduate studies, receiving a DMA in 1965 with a dissertation titled The Performance of Twelve-Tone and Serial Music for the Piano, [1] which included analyses of important piano works by Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, and others.
On the verge of bankruptcy last fall, the American Mug and Stein Company in East Liverpool, Ohio, got a new lease on life, courtesy of Starbucks ().The small ceramics manufacturer was contacted ...
Maurice Robert Stein (September 19, 1926 – August 18, 2023) was an American sociologist and innovator in higher education. [1] [2] [3] Stein is co-recipient of the 1987 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the American Sociological Association's Community and Urban Sociology Section, while his pedagogical innovations have been highlighted of late by Harvard University ...
Stein bought the house in 1940; it was sold after his death to Rupert Murdoch. [6] Jean Stein wrote of her upbringing in the house and her parents' parties there in her 2016 memoir West of Eden. [7] Jules Stein died in Los Angeles, aged 85, in 1981. His widow, Doris J. Stein, later founded the Doris J. Stein Foundation in Beverly Hills, California.
He was a pupil of Augusta Savage and exhibited with the Harmon Foundation.He was featured in the 1930s film A Study of Negro Artists, along with Savage and other artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance, including Richmond Barthé, James Latimer Allen, Palmer Hayden, Aaron Douglas, William Ellisworth Artis, Lois Mailou Jones, and Georgette Seabrooke.
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, [1] Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.