Jacques Lipchitz did her imposing features in bronze.
She was the subject of prints by Andy Warhol and Red Grooms.
She made the cover of Time magazine.
Best remembered now for her form-stretching prose, widely quoted apercus and bohemian panache, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was dominant in her day as a force majeure in the visual culture of expatriate Paris. A big part of that story has to do with the stellar modern art collection she and other members of her family accumulated and displayed in their Paris apartments.
An exhibition devoted to the Stein collections, which includes Picasso's great Gertrude portrait, opens this week at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
"Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories," which premiered last week at the nearby Contemporary Jewish Museum, offers a probing and intimate perspective on the visual realm Stein herself inhabited, projected and created. Comprising numerous formal portraits, photographs of her at home, clothing, domestic objects from her life with her longtime partner, Alice B. Toklas, rare film footage, books, theater posters and more, the show explores what co-curator Wanda M. Corn calls "the complexity of Gertrude Stein as a personage."
The exhibition, a joint venture with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, is divided into five sections, or what Corn regards as "at least five stories about Stein we don't know."
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