Background
She was born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family and raised in San Francisco.
She was born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family and raised in San Francisco.
Instead, she graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1886 and became a prominent writer for popular San Francisco publications, like the San Francisco Call.
As the first part of her autobiography, 920 O’Farrell Street chronicles her childhood in an upper-middle-class San Francisco neighborhood. Additionally, young women such as Levy were expected to marry well-off men, which generated additional societal expectations. However, the intellectually inclined Levy was hesitant to marry early.
She also wrote for The Wave with notable writers such as Jack London and Frank Norris.
Another one of Levy’s passions was traveling. She later returned to live in Paris with Toklas for two years.
(image of Harriet Levy and Alice B Toklas) (Stein, 1934, p 105-07). Levy wrote a description of the famed Rousseau Banquet which was published in a limited edition of 30 copies, in 1985 as part of a University of California Berkeley seminar: (discussion of the Levy posthumous publication appears at page 4 of this Charles Hobson catalog).
Harriet Lane Levy bequeathed to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: André Derain, Paysage du midi, 1906 oil on canvas.
Peter David Edstrom, Portrait of Mission Levy, ca. 1907-1908 terracotta. Henri Manguin, Nu sous les arbres (Nude beneath the Trees) (study), 1905 oil on canvasboard.
Corsican Landscape.
Henri Matisse, Corsican Landscape, 1899 oil on canvas. Louisiana Table au café (Café Table), ca. 1899 oil on canvas; Le Serf (The Slave), 1900–1903, bronze.
Madeleine, I, 1901 bronze.
Flowers, 1905 oil on cardboard. Assiette de fruits (Fruit Dish), 1902-1903 oil on canvas 1907.
Louisiana fille aux yeux verts (The Girl with Green Eyes), 1908 oil on canvas. Grosse tête; Henriette, II (Large Head.
Henriette, II), 1927 bronze.
Pablo Picasso, Scène de rue (Street Scene), 1900 oil on canvas.