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“The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everyone is doing everything.  This makes the thing we are looking at very different and this makes what those who describe it make of it, it makes a composition, it confuses, it shows, it is, it looks, it likes it as it is, and this makes what is seen as it is seen.  Nothing changes from generation to generation except the thing seen and that makes a composition.”

Gertrude Stein, Composition as Explanation, 1925

A selection of 50 images from the Stelen series was purchased for the permanent collection of The Jewish Museum New York in February 2012.