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 ...

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 ...

Audio transcript. SCOTT SIMON, host: We've come to know Gertrude Stein as a doyenne of U.S. letters. Shes at the center of two exhibitions currently up in San Francisco that treads on some pretty ...

Gertrude Stein's pseudo-salon is open for literary and lounge-seeking visitors at New York City's The Renwick Hotel. Subscribe To Newsletters.

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.

Gertrude Stein in Circles, exhibition closing event: Friends, Lovers, Rivals, and Comrades Join the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums to mark the closing of Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of ...