Thérèse Jelenko papers and photographs, 1899-1960.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Thérèse Jelenko papers and photographs, 1899-1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/668119374

The collection includes correspondence from Theresa Ehrman (later Thérèse Jelenko) to her mother (Jennie) and sister (Sally) sent during Theresa's stay in Paris with the Steins in the first decade of the 20th century. The collection also includes correspondence and postcards from Pablo Casals to Theresa Ehrman from the 1900s through the 1960s and correspondence with other friends and acquaintances. Especially notable in the collection are the photographs of the Stein family, family friends, and the family residences and studios in Paris circa 1909-1910. These photographs include images of Sarah, Michael, Allan, Gertrude, and Leo Stein as well as images of the interiors of their Parisian apartments (with their art collections on the walls). The photographs also include images of Henri Matisse, Pablo Casals and others.

2 boxes (.8 linear feet)

UC Berkeley Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7961401

UC Berkeley Libraries

Related Entities

There are 11 Entities related to this resource.

Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dw2b0d (person)

Catalan violoncellist. From the description of Letters, 1952 July 29 - 1971 Sept. 15, to Milly Stanfield. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378665 From the guide to the Letters, 1952 July 29 - 1971 Sept. 15, to Milly Stanfield, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) Catalan cellist, conductor, pianist, and composer. From the description of Autograph note signed on his visiting card, dated : [n.p., Prades?], 6 January 1939, to Mr. ...

Bancroft Library. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp40wq (corporateBody)

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx883w (person)

Gertrude Stein (b. February 3, 1874, Allegheny, PA-d. July 27, 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She moved to Paris and acquired a love for modern painting. Stein began building a personal collection of major artists, many of whom became her friends and formed the core of her regular salons. In 1907, as Stein was struggling to establish herself as a writer, she met Alice Babette Toklas, a fellow American who had come to P...

Judah L. Magnes Museum

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6129zv1 (corporateBody)

Ehrman family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv7509 (family)

Stein, Michael, 1856-1938.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nk6qqz (person)

Stein, Sarah 1870-1953

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k2x5v (person)

Stein family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j19jdj (family)

Jelenko, Thérèse, 1884-1967.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tj26bh (person)

Thérèse Jelenko was born Theresa Ehrman in 1884. The daughter of Jennie Rosenthal Ehrman and Herman Ehrman, Thérèse grew up in San Francisco, where she nurtured her talent as a pianist. Thérèse's parents were friends with Michael and Sarah Stein (brother and sister-in-law of Gertrude Stein) and Thérèse taught piano to the Steins' son, Allan. When the Steins moved to Europe in 1903, they took Thérèse with them. She lived with the Stein family at 1 rue de Fleurus (down the street from Le...

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rn3b48 (person)

Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

Ehrman, Theresa, 1884-1967.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n5d4z (person)