it was gertrude who continued to bring artists into the home. >> brown: but gertrude stein wanted tothey liked collecting but after a while, her public engine as a patron and a collector bothered her. she wanted to be known the same way picasso was known, for her creative work not just her collecting of others. >> brown: stein thought of herself primarily as a writer whose work it contends has come back into fashion. >> she was always just a little outside the mainstream until feminism rediscovered her and looked at her in a completely different lens. >> brown: including the best selling autobiography of tokas, there was four saints and three axis, an all-black cast produced in 1934. both museums are showing excerpts. ♪ as a writer and a collector, gertrude was a very strong personality who encouraged her own celebrity and loved being painted and sculpted. perhaps the most famous portrait is by picasso which both museums are featuring in differenting forms. >> gur to do tells a story of sitting for 90 or 80 sittings in a broken armed chair. at one point he got completely fed up, he w

they spent most of it on paintings and sculptures, destined to become extremely valuable. >> gertrudesaid you can buy art or clothes but you couldn't do both. so the steins decided to focus on artists who were their peers, artists who had not yet made there reputations. >> brown: matisse was a family favorite. in 1996, gertrude stein and her brother leo saw this matisse in a garage unsoaldz. >> they stepped forward he tend of the exhibition and offered matisse a discounted price and he accepted it. and as soon as that painting got to their home, people needed to go see it. it had been the most notorious submission to that salon. >> brown: notorious because even matisse's wife who was the model was embarrassed by the colors that didn't correspond to nature. >> it was one thing to do that with landscape but then to take that pallet and -- palate and paint a woman's face green was shocking and unprecedented. >> brown: the painting, woman with a hat, is today regarded as a master masterpiece and grace cover of the catalog. this painting bishop says had a profound influence on picasso. >>

there is one i want to talk about, "seeing gertrude stein." >> gertrude stein is a local woman.he was raised in oakland. she was an extraordinary individual who helped create -- many people call for the mother of modernism. years ago, i was introduced to someone doing research on her. i thought it would be an extraordinary exposition to take her and understand her at all for complexity. that is what we have on view during the summer of 2011. >> it is full of wonderful drawings, paintings, and sculpture. >> there is incredible art on view. we have photographs. we have sculpture. we have a lot of different things. we have a little something made for her by picasso. there are five different ways of looking at her life. it is not in chronological installation. it is looking at how she is portrayed in help artists, painters, and photographers presented her and how she thought about her own style and presentation. many people think she always had short hair. it was not until she was 52 that she cut off all of her hair. the second element is called "domestic stein." alice b. toklas was

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and on "art beat," spencer michels visits a revival of gertrude stein's avant garde opera, "four saints in three acts" in san francisco. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. jeff. >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we look at egypt six months after the revolution in tahrir square. i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: chevron. we may have more in common than you think. >> and by bnsf railway. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ow! of course. thank you. i'd call