A Fool There Was

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…

Like many of Gertrud Natzler's ceramics, this bowl is flowing and graceful, and, as Otto, her husband and artistic partner, said about her pots in general, “practically floats.” The Natzlers’ works…

This terracotta Hanukkah lamp from Cabilia (?), Algeria, is decorated with painted black triangular shapes (possibly representing humanoid figures) on a background of yellow, with edging in reddish…