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Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Stein went to Paris in 1903 after medical school at Johns Hopkins University and lived there, writing and collecting art, for the rest of her life. She settled in with her brother, also a patron of the arts, and a companion/secretary, Alice B Toklas (18771967), and in her home she held court to a lost generation of expatriate US writers and modern artists (Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Gris). She also wrote Three Lives (1910), The Making of Americans (1925), Composition as Explanation (1926), Tender Buttons (1914), Mrs Reynolds (1952), and the operas (with composer Virgil Thomson) Four Saints in Three Acts (1929) and The Mother of Us All (1947). A tour of the USA in 1934 resulted in Everybody's Autobiography (1937).
The blue star signifies the purity and honesty of the life of the country. The red star represents authority and law. Effective date: 4 June 1904.
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