Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery by Abercrombie, Gertrude
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery by Abercrombie, Gertrude

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

A sumptuously produced retrospective on the beloved and under-published Chicago-based Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, the "queen of the...
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Author: Gertrude Abercrombie
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery by Abercrombie, Gertrude

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

$90.96
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery by Abercrombie, Gertrude

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

$90.96
Author: Gertrude Abercrombie
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A sumptuously produced retrospective on the beloved and under-published Chicago-based Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, the "queen of the bohemian artists"

Published with Carnegie Museum of Art and Colby College Museum of Art.

This book is the definitive scholarly volume on Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art and jazz scenes. Abercrombie was a creative force of singular vision who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings full of personal significance. With a deft hand, a concise symbolic vocabulary and a restrained palette, she produced potent images that speak to her mercurial nature and her evolving psychology as an artist. Cats, owls, doors, moons, barren trees, seashells and searching female figures all converge in her mysterious works, which suggest a life of purposeful introspection and emotional struggle. Drawing consistently on her dreams as source material, Abercrombie said, "The whole world is a mystery."
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery accompanies the artist's first retrospective since 1991: an eponymous exhibition which begins at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh before traveling to the Colby College Museum of Art in Maine and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Gertrude Abercrombie was born in 1909 in Austin, Texas, and spent most of her life in Chicago, focusing on her art full time beginning in the early 1930s. Her work was in part inspired by jazz, and she was the host of legendary parties and jam sessions frequented by icons such as Dizzy Gillespie, who was a close friend. She died in Chicago in 1977, at age 68.

Author: Gertrude Abercrombie
Publisher: Delmonico Books
Published: 02/18/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.45lbs
Size: 12.13h x 9.53w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781636811550
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