We’ve heard of Gertrude Stein and her marvelous group of artist friends, especially Picasso, but she also had siblings with the same urge to gather painters and their art. That family fascination is celebrated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art starting with the exhibit: The Steins Collect Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde 
“American expatriates in bohemian Paris when the 20th century was young, the Steins — writer Gertrude, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael’s wife, Sarah — were among the first to recognize the talents of avant-garde painters like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Through their friendship and patronage, they helped spark an artistic revolution. This landmark exhibition draws on collections around the world to reunite the Steins’ unparalleled collections of modern art, bringing together, for the first time in a generation, dozens of works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and many others. “
“The Steins Collect Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde”
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA
(Image: Pablo Picasso,” Head in Three-Quarter View”, 1907; gouache and watercolor on paper)