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 Stein, born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and died on July 27, 1946, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, was an avant-garde American writer, poet, and art collector. Stein is ...

1. Gertrude Stein’s family moved to Europe when she was a baby. Gertrude Stein was the fifth and final child of Daniel and Amelia Stein, who had both come to America from Bavaria.She was just 6 ...

"To live in the world of creation--to get in it and stay in it--to frequent it and to haunt it."--Henry James. "I wanna be a lion," Gertrude Stein announced to her brother Leo. So she followed him ...

Gertrude Stein definitely lived a storied life. Remembered as a language innovator, lesbian role model, feminist pioneer and literary anarchist, she hosted avant-garde authors and artists such as ...

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.

WHAT Is REMEMBERED (186 pp.)—Alice B. Toklas—Holt, Rineharf & Winston ($4)."About six weeks ago Gertrude Stein said, it does not look to me as if you were ever going to write that ...

“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square.Over seven months, starting in October 1934, ...

Bass – who seeks to resurrect the unrivaled glory of Gertrude Stein's Paris apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the Left Bank, where the American writer and her ...

When Gertrude Stein’s friend and Paris neighbour Pablo Picasso completed her portrait in 1906, she was 32 and yet to be celebrated as the American expatriate avant-garde author, ...