Last weekend, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s magnificent exhibition “The Steins Collect,” which puts on brilliant display the Impressionist and Modernist masterpieces of Gertrude ...

Few collectors throughout history had such an impact on art as Gertrude Stein did on Modern Art. Living and liaising in twentieth century Paris, most of the artists she commissioned and was a patron ...

Among the treasures was Picasso's 1905-06 portrait of Gertrude, looking like a cross between Madame Defarge and a statue from Easter Island.Stein loved the heavy, peasant-like intellectual ...

Two abstract portraits—Marsden Hartley’s One Portrait of One Woman and Charles Demuth’s Love, Love, Love, Homage to Gertrude Stein—are included in the third story, “Art of Friendship.” ...

Gertrude Stein, doyenne of American letters, is the center of two exhibitions in San Francisco. Accessibility links. ... Most of the art that Stein collected can't be found in this show.

During her time in Paris, American writer Gertrude Stein and her family amassed an amazing assemblage of groundbreaking art, including works from Picasso, Matisse and other notable artists.

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 ...

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.

In the early 1900s, Gertrude Stein and her brothers filled their Paris apartments with avant-garde art. The Steins bought paintings right out of the studios of young, scandalous artists — Pablo ...

When she died in 1946 at age 72, Gertrude Stein already was a bona fide icon. For more than 50 years, the Pennsylvania-born, Oakland-bred poet, writer, art collector and playwright had been an ...