Correspondence between Alice B. Toklas and Prentiss Taylor, 1947-1955.

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Correspondence between Alice B. Toklas and Prentiss Taylor, 1947-1955.

Contains 6 letters, 1 postcard, and 4 envelopes from Alice B. Toklas to Prentiss Taylor, and 4 carbon copies of letters from Prentiss to Alice.

1 portfolio.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7367090

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991

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Prentiss Taylor was born 1907 in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City and became a noted landscape painter. He spent four months in Charleston, South Carolina in 1933 doing sketches of rundown buildings. Working for the W.P.A., he made a series of lithographs from these drawings. He was also an illustrator about stories of blacks in the South. He served as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers for 34 years and did pioneering work in art theorapy wi...

Toklas, Alice B., 1877-1967

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Toklas was a writer and companion to Gertrude Stein. From the guide to the Alice B. Toklas letters to William Alfred, 1951-1961., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Biographical Note Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) was an author and the life partner of Gertrude Stein. Don Frank is the son of one of Toklas' childhood friends. After his service in the armed forces, he met Toklas in Europe. ...