The Kahlil Gibran Collective
The Artist The Poet The Man
The Kahlil Gibran Digital Archive
Your search did not match any documents.
ssss
Showing documents tagged with 1917. Show all
In Digital Archive
In Digital Archive
In Digital Archive
In Digital Archive
Letter of Gibran to Cecilia Beaux (c. 1917)
______
Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent. She was a near-contemporary of American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France. Her sympathetic renderings of the American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.
Tags:
1917,
CeciliaBeaux,
Letters,
Portraitist
In 1960-1970
Mercedes de Acosta, Here Lies the Heart: A Tale of My Life, New York: Reynal, 1960, pp. 91-93, 105, 140.
Mercedes de Acosta (1892-1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. De Acosta wrote almost a dozen plays, only four of which were produced, and she published a novel and three volumes of poetry. She was professionally unsuccessful but is known for her many lesbian relationships with famous Broadway and Hollywood personalities and numerous friendships with prominent artists of the period.
Tags:
1917,
1960,
memoirs,
Mercedesdeacosta,
NewYork
In Digital Archive
Ligue pour la liberation de la Syrie et du Liban (Chronique Syrienne), "Correspondance d'Orient", 11-10-1917, pp. 283-284.
Tags:
1917,
french
In Digital Archive
Newsletter from the Syria-Mount Lebanon League of Liberation (1917)
_________
Newsletter from the Syria-Mount Lebanon League of Liberation for the consideration of the Hon. Secretary of War. It is an appeal to the Secretary of War to have drafted Syrians transferred to the Legion d'Orient (a volunteer army prepared by the French Government).
Source: Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies/Ameen Rihani Organization
Tags:
1917,
Newsletter,
SyrianMountLebanonLeague,
WW1
In Digital Archive
