Said to be homage to Gertrude Stein. "Made in honor of such friends as Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Wallace Stevens, and Eugene O’Neill, these paintings, watercolors, and drawings used objects and wordplay to convey the life, rather than the likeness, of the sitters." (http://artgallery.yale.edu/publication/charles-demuth-poster-portraits-1923-1929)