Cook

By Roy R. Behrens (2005). 7 x 5 in. 96 pp. Illustrated (including author’s “visual poems” for Gertrude Stein). Bibliography. Full-color dust jacket. A highly readable, playful and often amusing account of the long-term friendship of Stein and an Iowa-born expatriate painter named William Edwards Cook (1881-1959). It was Cook who taught Stein to drive, and it was she who introduced him to the work of the Swiss-born Modern architect, Le Corbusier. Eventually this brought about the commissioning by Cook of his Paris residence (still intact), called Villa Cook or Maison Cook. Based on unpublished letters between Cook, Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

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