The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone (35 page)

Quai St. Michel,
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Quinn, John,
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Ravensbruck,
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Read, Herbert,
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Redon, Odilon,
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Regina Palast Hotel,
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Rembrandt van Rijn,
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Renoir, Auguste,
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Richardson, Brenda,
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Rivulet du Puits Noir
(The Shaded Stream at Le Puits Noir),
163-164

Robinson, Theodore,
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Roché, Pierre,
44-45
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Rodin, Auguste,
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Rosenberg, Paul,
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Rosengart, Siegfried,
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Rouart, Louis,
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Rouault, Georges,
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Rousseau, Henri,
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rue de Fleurus,
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rue Lafitte,
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rue Ravignan,
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Sagot, Clovis,
42-43

Salmon, André,
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Salon d'Automne

     1905,
45-46

     1945,
210

Salon des Indépendants,
48

     1906,
61-62

     
Nu Bleu
(Blue Nude) as exhibited at,
76

San Francisco Museum of Art,
190

Sargent, John Singer,
92

Schuler, Alfred,
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Schwartz, Lily,
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Scrip
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Senckenberg Institute,
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Shaw, George Bernard,
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Shelly, Percy Bysshe,
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Signac, Paul,
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Matisse and,
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Silbert, Ben,
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Sisley, Alfred,
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Sopher, Aaron,
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Statendum
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Steer, William,
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Stein, Allan,
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STEIN, GERTRUDE,
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     Alice B. Toklas and,
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     Claribel Cone and,
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     Cone sisters and,
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     description of,
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     death of,
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     education of,
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     Etta Cone and,
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     family history of,
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     Leo and,
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     Matisse and,
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     Picasso and,
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     as writer, vi,
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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Everybody's Autobiography
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The Making of Americans
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Q.E.D.
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Three Lives
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STEIN, LEO,
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Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose
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     art according to,
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     Cézanne and,
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     as art collector,
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     Cone sisters and,
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     death of,
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     description of,
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     description of Matisse,
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     Etta Cone and,
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     family history of,
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     account of, Matisse and Picasso initial meeting,
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     Gertrude Stein and,
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     Matisse and Picasso

          discovery of, vi

          loss of interest in,
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     rue de Fleurus and,
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     Sagot, Picasso, and,
42-43

     World War I and,
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Stein, Michael

     Cone sisters and,
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     death of,
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     Etta Cone and,
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     family history,
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Stein, Sally,
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     Etta Cone, Matisse, and,
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Steins (Leo and Gertrude),
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     Cone sisters and,
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     Matisse and,
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     Picasso and,
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     rue de Fleurus and,
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Stevenson, Robert Louis,
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Stieglitz, Alfred,
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Stock Market crash (1929),
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T'ete du'un enfant
(Head of a Child),
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T'ete d'une jeune fille
(Head of a Young Girl),
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Tarkhoff, Nicolas A.,
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Tess of d'Ubervilles
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Three Lives
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Thule Society,
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Toklas, Alice B.,
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     Gertrude and,
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de,
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transition,
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Two Women,
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Tzara, Tristan,
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Uffizi,
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United States Civil War, vi,
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United States dollar,
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University of Maryland at Baltimore County,
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Unter den Linden,
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Vahine no te Vi
(Women with Mango), v

Vallotton, Felix,
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Vallotton, Paul,
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van Gogh, Theo,
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van Gogh, Vincent,
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Vanity Fair
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Vauxcelles, Louis,
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Victorianism,
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     influence of, on Cone sisters’ dress, vi,
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     Etta and,
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Violinste et fillette, Divertissement
(Violinist and Young Girl),
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Vlaminck, Maurice de,
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Vollard gallery,
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von Westphal, Carl,
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Wahl, Raymond,
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Wall Street,
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Wartburg,
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Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
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Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt,
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Wilhelm II, Kaiser,
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Wilson, Woodrow,
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Women,
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     education of,
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     sexuality at turn of the century,
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Women's College of the University of North Carolina,
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Women's Medical College of Baltimore,
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women physicians directory listing of,
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World War I,
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World War II,
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Zorach, William,
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T
his book would have been much the poorer but for the splendid cooperation of various staff members of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Appreciation in abundance goes to them for their patience during my many years of research on this book. I particularly want to acknowledge BMA's current director, Doreen Bolger; Nancy Press in rights and reproductions; and the library staff, who generously gave me their time while I poured over Etta's diaries and Claribel's notes.

Many thanks also to the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland for access to their invaluable oral histories recorded by Arthur J. Gutman, Amalie Sonneborn Katz, M. Shakman Katz, Alice Berney Hoffberger, Robert Berney, and Louis Cahn.

I would also like to thank the following individuals for telling me their stories about the Cone sisters and their times: Edward T. Cone, Sydney Cone Jr., Claribel Cone II, Angela Rosengart, Arthur J. and Mary Louise Gutman, and Rueben Kramer.

I thank David Lawsky for his technical help and Anthony Krupp for help with German translations.

Words cannot adequately express my gratefulness to Hillary Spurling. A longtime writer of unassailable brilliance (witness her soon-to-be two volume biography of Henri Matisse), Ms. Spurling graciously placed into words her kind comments about my book,
The Art of Acquiring
, before publication.

As if that weren't kindness enough, she then pointed out the upcoming existence and virtues of the book to the BBC, who then interviewed me for its documentary, “Michael Palin on the Cone Sisters.” My chief objective in writing this biography was to help see to it that Etta and Claribel received, in perpetuity, the credit they richly deserved for their selfless contributions to art. With the BBC and Michael Palin now lending that goal their inestimable weight, I simply could not be happier—though a popular full-length movie on the Cone sisters might, I imagine, someday do them one better.

Bruce Bortz and Mary Yang at Bancroft Press get special thanks for their hard work, diligence, and perseverance on the many and complicated editorial aspects of this project. Bruce Bortz, as publisher, has shown an unwavering desire to publish the very best book possible. Who could ask for more? Sarah Azizi and Jaina Hirai, formerly of Bancroft Press, likewise deserve more than a mention for their early interest and editorial assistance and suggestions.

Theresa Williams designed this book's interior. I thank her for her classicly elegant layout and her painstaking care in executing it. Giving this book not only the right look, but one that matched the subject matter, was not easy, but she achieved it, I believe, in award-winning fashion.

Steve Parke, who always does world class work, put in more than his usual extra effort with the jacket design, photo and art insert, and my author photo. Sensing the significance of this book, this art-loving genius of a designer threw his heart and soul into this entire project, and I believe it shows. Thank you, Steve.

And finally my sincere thanks, as always, to Ron Goldfarb for his guidance.