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historical notes
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Harriet Lane Levy was a California writer best known for her memoir, 920 O’Farrell Street (1937). Levy was also an avid art collector, a childhood friend of Alice B. Toklas, and an acquaintance of Gertrude Stein. In 1886, she graduated with a Bachelor’s in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, where she met Sarah Samuels before her marriage to Michael Stein (1894). Levy and Toklas moved to Paris where Levy became a Matisse collector under the guidance of the Steins. In 1910, she resettled in San Francisco, where she continued to live independently and pursue literary projects. Levy bequeathed paintings by André Derain, Henri Maguin, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
