Gertrude and Leo ran a salon on the rue de Fleurus, which some have described as the first museum of modern art. When Stein met Picasso, she thought the 24-year-old Spaniard beautiful.

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 ...

So Gertrude Stein, who uses prose to build a series of ... She seems at times to be some sort of dim, potent symbol or half-goddess, sometimes a plain case of schizophrenia, ...

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 ...

This article was originally published on July 28, 2021, and was updated to reflect the 150th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's birth on February 3, 2024. Brenda Haas Writer and editor for DW Culture.

27 tells the story of Stein and Toklas’s relationship, alongside the luminaries they called friends and championed, including Picasso, Matisse, Man Ray, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway ...

In 1876, the wealthy railroad executive Daniel Stein took his progeny, Michael, Simon, Leo, Bertha and Gertrude, to Europe for three years. Afraid his children might be considered “uncultured” because ...

The actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s large-cast opera from 1934, sans music. By Laura Collins-Hughes One minute the actor ...

Gertrude Stein, American modernism’s ‘maiden aunt,’ returned to the U.S. after an absence of 30 years a ‘real lion.’ Skip to Main Content Explore Our Brands ...