The American writer befriended many of the most important artists and writers of the time when she lived in Paris, accruing a significant art collection and becoming a driving force for their careers
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories at the nearby Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) were astutely planned as complementary perspectives on the broad...
GERTRUDE ABERCROMBIE (1909–1977) painted the strangest trees, which seem both earthly and otherworldly, with branches jutting out from trunks in graceful, balletic stretches.