EVB2948502: Photographer Carl Van Vechten with Gertrude Stein as she waves her hat from S.S. Champlain. May 4, 1935. Stein had been part of the expatriate art community is Paris for decades. In 1933 she published a best selling memoir, 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,' written in the voice of Toklas, her life partner, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images