The late surrealist artist painted peculiar mysteries, shown in “Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery,” opening March 27.

The artist Gertrude Abercrombie is not someone whose name I knew until very recently. But she’s definitely a name to know now. Born in 1909 in Austin, Texas and dying in 1977 in Chicago, Abercrombie ...

Gertrude Abercrombie’s A Picture in a Picture in a Picture, 1955 Credit: Courtesy Sullivan Goss Gallery The Church (detail) by artist Gertrude Abercrombie (1938). Original is oil on canvas; 18 inches ...

Letter from Karl, Gertrude Abercrombie, 1940. Oil on canvas. 24 x 30 in. Union League Club of Chicago Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie dubbed his good friend Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) “the bop ...

Gertrude Abercrombie was a bohemian midcentury painter whose surrealist paintings, newly coveted by collectors, are now touring museums as part of... A midcentury 'jazz witch' artist finds a fandom in ...

That inventory is courtesy of Eric Crosby, director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, where a retrospective exhibition, “Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery,” is on view through June 1 ...

Opening later this month, Milwaukee Art Museum will present “Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery,” which brings together nearly eighty of her paintings, “reveal[ing] an artist whose ...

This story has been updated to correct a misspelling. It was the kind of feel-good mystery that one might encounter on "Antiques Roadshow." While Austinite Lars Frazer was growing up in Southern ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photo booth portrait. Stamped on ...