Visitors are greeted at the entrance to the exhibit by a cascading series of verbal and visual portraits: the headline from an April 1935 issue of the San Francisco Examiner: “Gertrude Stein arrives ...

An audio recording of Stein reading the word portraits echoes ... She pays homage to Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Gertrude Stein with an upside-down recreation of it made from 5,024 spools of ...

Gertrude Stein, once one of the doyennes of American letters, is the center of two concurrent exhibitions in San Francisco. Both tread some familiar territory, like her friendship and patronage of ...

Fresh Air's book critic reviews Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcom's joint biography of Gertrude Stein and her longtime companion, Alice B. Toklas.

Gertrude Stein, whose family prospered in the San Francisco real estate market and streetcar business late in the 19th century, used her money to buy paintings by Matisse and Picasso long before ...

But Stein’s meek, self-sacrificing mother, who died when Gertrude was 14, could not contain the domineering temperament of her husband, whose death three years later cast the family adrift.

02/02/2024 February 2, 2024. Jewish art collector and writer Gertrude Stein was born 150 years ago. She was a lesbian icon, hosted Picasso and translated antisemitic speeches.