 Gertrude's "Matisse" and "Picasso" descriptive essays appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's August, 1912 edition of "Camera Work", a special edition devoted to Picasso and Matisse, and represented her first publication.Of this publication, Gertrude said, "[h]e was the first one that ever printed anything that I had done.And you can imagine what that meant to me or to any one."