Iconic writer Gertrude Stein gets her due with Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, an exhibit premiering at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. The exhibition is dedicated to investigating and honoring her legacy and life, according to a release from the museum. The exhibit will run April 12 – Sept 2011.
Following its premiere in San Francisco the exhibition will move to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. and will be on view there from October 14, 2011 through January 22, 2012.
The exhibition will feature about 100 artifacts and works by artists from across Europe and the United States and is curated by Wanda M. Corn of Stanford University. The gallery will include the art-filled biographical exploration of Stein’s identities as a literary pioneer, transatlantic modernist, Jewish-American expatriate, American celebrity, art collector, and muse to artists of several generations.
Stein’s relationship with Alice B. Toklas will also be explored via the exhibition. California College of the Arts professor and Seeing Gertrude Stein co-curator Tirza Latimer worked closely with compiling the part of the exhibition that focuses on the Stein/Toklas relationship.
That piece of the exhibition will explore the aesthetics of dress, home décor, entertainment, and food that the two women created together.
While Seeing Gertrude Stein is on view the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will feature the Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, from May 21 through September 6, 2011. The Steins Collect reunites the unparalleled modern art collections of Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael Stein, and Michael’s wife, Sarah Stein.
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