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While I was looking for paintings by Sidney Goodman (probably not cool to be interested in narrative realism), I came across this group of baseball poems (all based on paintings, one Goodman among 'em).
Also, yesterday when I was in Baltimore. I went past the Stein-Bachrach house on Linden Avenue in Reservoir Hill. (You can click on these multiple times to make them bigger, bigger, bigger.)
I didn't realize these guys were in the frame as I was snapping this first one. They looked a little surprised.
The house looks a heck of a lot better than it did in 2002, but I couldn't tell if anyone is living there or in the carriage house, which I neglected to photograph. In the window to the left of the guys in the pic, there is what looks to be a historic plaque, but I did not go to read it.
The last time I would have hung out in that house was 1996. One thing I remember thinking remarkable was how humongous it was inside-- high ceilings, many many rooms, many many bathrooms (always a good thing).
I wonder if Gertrude enjoyed her time in the house. The City Paper article says she moved there in 1892 from California after both her parents died. I have heard from other sources that she was there only a year, while she was a medical student at Johns Hopkins, and that she didn't enjoy her studies. What would you enjoy after losing both your parents, I wonder. Safe to say, however, that she wasn't meant to be a doctor. Maybe we who were there a little over 100 years after she was enjoyed the house more.
To see the three or so most recent owners of the house, you can search here: http://sdatcert3.resiusa.org/rp_rewrite/
Search Baltimore City, 2408 Linden Ave.
p.s. Gertrude Stein's present "home"