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Levy, Harriet Lane print view role Collector dates 1867-1950 city San Francisco state CA other cities Paris; sex F historical notes 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. decades of activity 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 updated 02/14/2025 10:12:27 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Stanford University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives Charles Hobson collection : design and production materials for artists' books, 1985-2008. see details... University of California, Berkeley The Bancroft Library Harriet Lane Levy recollections : typescript (carbon), circa 1906-1950 see details... California Historical Society North Baker Research Library Levy Estate Company ledger, 1932-1933. see details... University of California, Berkeley The Bancroft Library Women of California [sound recording] / recorded by Harry Gray, 1973-1974. see details... Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas collection see details... see also: Stein, Sarah Stein, Gertrude Stein, Leo «  back