in 1906, gertrude stein and her brother leo saw this matisse at a paris salon, unsold. >> leo and gertrudeed forward at the very end of the exhibition and offered matisse a discounted price, and he accepted it. and as soon as that painting got to their home on the rue de fleuris, people needed to go see it. it had been the most notorious submission to that year's salon. 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 a landscape, but to take that palette and apply it to a portrait of a woman, to a woman's face, to paint a woman's face green, was utterly shocking and unprecedented. >> reporter: the painting-- "woman with a hat"-- is today regarded as a masterpiece, and graces the cover of the catalogue. in 1907, the steins bought a matisse called "blue nude"-- on a painting, bishop says, that had a profound influence on picasso. it shows matisse presenting a traditional subject of a bather in a very powerful, aggressive way. >> it was an immediate challenge to picasso, and he launch

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

gertrude stein, scott fitzgerald, and so forth.ut i felt that this period was just waiting and it sure appealed to me. i have been thinking a lot about this idea, this point of view. history, as you know, is much more than just politics and soldiers and social issues. it is also medicine, and science, and art, and music, and theater, and poetry, and ideas. we shouldn't lumps things into categories. it is all part of the same thing. one of the most interesting characters in this study that i have done is oliver wendell holmes, senior, who devoted his whole working career to medical science. he was on the harvard medical school faculty for 35 years and a very prominent figure in american medicine. there was no incongruity. he also wrote poetry, and essays, and helped to start a magazine called the atlantic monthly. it was all a part of it. i think that is the way history ought to be taught, and i think it ought to be written. it is the way i would like to think myself more about as time goes on. in my own life, i at one point thought

that was the first collected by the epstein family, gertrude stein is part of the exhibit at moma withn family, we would not have any matisse or picasso. ago to this amazing exhibit on a saturday! we will be right back. ♪ [ male announcer ] if you're ready to get more from your tv service than comcast can give, now's a great time to switch to at&t u-verse tv. make the switch! [ female announcer ] call to get at&t u-verse -- now with free hd -- for only $29 a month for six months. or get $300 back via promotion card with a qualifying u-verse bundle. [ male announcer ] u-verse tv lets you record up to four shows at once on a single dvr. and you can record and play back your shows from any room. plus with u-verse, you get dvr service and receiver included at no extra charge. [ female announcer ] call to get at&t u-verse -- now with free hd -- for only $29 a month for six months. or get $300 back via promotion card with a qualifying u-verse bundle. [ male announcer ] and former comcast customers prefer at&t u-verse tv picture quality. even upgrade to over 160 hd channels. that's more than

to paraphase gertrude stein, i think you will find that there is is no there -- that there is no there there. i think what my colleagues will find is an extraordinary intellect, a fundamentally decent man and someone who will be a strong and impartial juri jurist. i urge my colleagues to vote for cloture and to vote to support his nomination. mr. president, i also rise today to talk about a minnesota icon. minnesotans and baseball fans across this country are celebrating the life of harmon killabrew today. we lost a great slugger, harmon killabrew yesterday. i never met mr. killabrew, which kind of hard for me to believe, because like so many minnesotans, i felt that i knew him. he was the heart of the minnesota twins franchise not just because of the towering home runs that he hit but because on and off the field he carried himself with so much dignity and grace and humility. i was nine years old when the old washington senators moved to minnesota and became the minnesota twins. we were so excited to have a major league team in minnesota and killebrew was the heart and sowfl the franc