Jewish art collector and writer Gertrude Stein was born 150 years ago. ... Only insistence," her most famous quotes feature recurring words, such as "There is no there there." ...

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.

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 ...

Gertrude Stein coined the phrase, “A rose is a rose is a rose.” She is also known for the quote, “There’s no there there,” about Oakland, California, the city of her childhood home.

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 ...

Gertrude Stein was much closer to Picasso, Bishop explains. And, she adds, the Steins introduced the two artists, "which had to have launched one of the greatest artistic rivalries in the history ...