On “Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language,” at Musée du Luxembourg, Paris. Though Stein’s contemporaries may not have always appreciated her in the way she wished, the Musée du ...

Gertrude later wrote that when she reached for a roll on the table, Picasso beat her to it, exclaiming, “This piece of bread is mine.” She burst out laughing, and Picasso, sheepishly acknowledging ...

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 ...

Coinciding with the exhibition “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde” on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, historian and SVA faculty member Michèle C. Cone leads a ...

Who was Gertrude Stein? Should she be remembered as a pioneering writer? An early and insightful collector of modern art? A den mother to a 1920s cohort of creatives—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce—for ...

APPRECIATION: PAINTING, POETRY & PROSE (215 pp.)—Leo Stein—Crown ($2.50). Gertrude Stein’s elder brother Leo, now in his 70s, had delivered this book to the publishers before her death (TIME, Aug. 5).