“We Can Make It Come True”: Faith Ringgold's Dinner at Gertrude Stein's

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Research Article| March 01 2013 “We Can Make It Come True”: Faith Ringgold's Dinner at Gertrude Stein's Tirza True Latimer Tirza True Latimer California College of the Arts tlatimer@cca.edu Tirza True Latimer is associate professor and chair of the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Her published work reflects on modern and contemporary visual culture from a lesbian feminist perspective. She is co-editor, with Whitney Chadwick, of the anthology The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris between the Wars (Rutgers University Press, 2003) and the author of Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris (Rutgers University Press, 2005). She co-organized, with the art historian Wanda Corn, the 2011-2012 exhibition, “Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories,” hosted by the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; a co-authored book, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories (University of California Press, 2011), accompanied the exhibition. In 2013, Latimer received a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete a related research project, provisionally titled “Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 129–135. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-51.1.129 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tirza True Latimer; “We Can Make It Come True”: Faith Ringgold's Dinner at Gertrude Stein's. English Language Notes 1 March 2013; 51 (1): 129–135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-51.1.129 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsEnglish Language Notes Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2013 Regents of the University of Colorado2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: II. Mechanical Reproductions You do not currently have access to this content.