The Portrait Gallery and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco have co- organized an exhibition dedicated to examining the central role the visual arts played in the work and life of Gertrude Stein.
"Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories" features more than 50 artifacts and 100 works by artists from across Europe and the U.S., detailing Stein's life and work as an artist, collector and distinctive style-maker. The exhibition shares an in-depth portrait of Stein that knits together her many identities: literary celebrity, lifelong partner of Alice B. Toklas, arts networker whose famous friendships included some of the most prominent artists of her time. A Jewish American expatriate and muse to artists of several generations Stein is considered by many to be an inventor of modernism, whose reach across the arts was extraordinary. Her originality as a thinker, along with her interdisciplinary approach to projects in dance, music and theater, continue to inspire artists today.
The exhibition is built upon new scholarship by lead guest curator Professor Wanda M. Corn of Stanford University and associate curator Professor Tirza Latimer of the California College of Arts, San Francisco.
Major support for the exhibition, publication and related programs has been received through a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support for the exhibition's national tour has been provided by E*TRADE.
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