Gertrude Stein, photographed at her desk, used the phrase to describe her reaction on finding that her family’s house had been torn down. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images.

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 ...

Stein used the words to explain that the home she grew up in was physically no longer there and that the landscape around it had changed. But these days, it has taken on a different meaning.

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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art inexplicably refuses to tell the full truth to the art lovers who are thronging to an exhibition of masterpieces collected by the poet Gertrude Stein and her siblings.

Bruce Nauman’s 1968 work My Name as Though It Were Written on the Surface of the Moon poked fun at the space race—another symbol of 20th-century technological innovation whose moment has passed.

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

As Stein mused in her 1933 book, “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,” “But what a story that of the real Hem, and one he should tell himself but alas he never will.

But Gertrude did not hesitate to drag in characters of other eras—notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson).

Gertrude Stein had family roots in Baltimore and studied medicine at Johns Hopkins for more than three years before dropping out and embarking on a pioneering literary career in Paris for over 40 ...

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