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The Monday Morning Memo

“‘I was and I still am satisfied with my portrait,’ 
Gertrude wrote in her little book, Picasso, published shortly before WWII.
‘For me, it is I, and it is the only reproduction of me which is always I, for me.'”

“Gertrude’s long-term–and sometimes troubled– friendship with Picasso seems to have begun in the winter of 1905-06 when she traveled daily across Paris to the Rue Ravignan to sit for her portrait. She liked the long calm hours of posing while Picasso painted and Fernande read aloud the Fables of La Fontaine. After 80 or more sittings, Picasso became discouraged and painted out the face completely, leaving the picture unfinished. Months later, returned from a trip to Spain, he brushed in the features without seeing Gertrude. The result was a compelling, mask-like face. The painting survives as a perfect transitional work, joining the two of them together, marking the end of Picasso’s Rose Period and the beginnings of Cubism and the modern movement.”

– James R. Mellow,
The Stein Salon Was The First Museum of Modern Art,
published in The New York Times, Dec. 1, 1968

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I wrote this on August 21, 2023:

“Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Self Reliance in 1841. In his generation, Emerson was a big, big name. Dale Carnegie updated the ideas of Emerson with his How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936. Napoleon Hill wrote Think and Grow Rich in 1937.  And then Norman Vincent Peale added Christianity and American Exceptionalism into the mix with his book, The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952.”

Writing for The Guardian on November 7, 2016, Robert McCrum wrote:

“After Peale, the other American titles that owe a huge debt to Carnegie include: The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (1982); The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey (1989); and Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day by Joel Osteen (2007). From these popular bestsellers, bought by people who probably possess almost no other books, it is only a short step to Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again.’”

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- Roy H. Williams

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