Charles Schwab Helps Bring The Steins Collect Art Exhibition to San Francisco

Charles Schwab is honored to announce it will be the lead corporate sponsor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presentation of The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Schwab will partner with SFMOMA to showcase more than 200 landmark works of modern art from the collections of author Gertrude Stein and her family from May 21 - Sept. 6. The exhibition will span the family’s entire collecting history and will premiere in San Francisco, underscoring the family’s connections to the Bay Area.

"This exhibition is particularly exciting given that the Bay Area is the childhood home of the Stein family,” said Walt Bettinger, Schwab President and CEO. "Schwab is a company with deep roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. We were founded here and our headquarters are here. With a history of over 20 years supporting the museum, this sponsorship of The Steins Collect exhibit is another opportunity to support the important work of SFMOMA and celebrate the roles we each can play in fostering art that educates, enlightens, and endures.”

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde exhibition reunites for the first time in a generation works from the collections of Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael Stein, and Michael’s wife, Sarah Stein. It includes pieces by some of the most important artists from the early decades of the 20^th century including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Paul Cézanne. The exhibition offers a personal view into the family that made a lasting impact on art by including a collection of their photographs, family albums, film clips and correspondence.

For more than twenty years, Schwab has championed the work of SFMOMA and its mission to expand the range of cultural experiences it offers, as well as to make art meaningful and accessible for the community. Through exhibitions such as The Steins Collect, Schwab and SFMOMA work together to play a role in helping make art that educates and enlightens available through the city’s cultural resources.

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde is jointly organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition will premiere in San Francisco from May 21 – Sept. 6, before traveling to Paris and New York.

For additional information, please visit sfmoma.org or call 415-357-4700.

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