Gertrude Abercrombie

Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909 – 1977) produced hundreds of paintings imbued with autobiography that revealed her emotional truth and declared it as real. A critical figure in the mid-20th-century Chicago art and jazz scenes, Abercrombie made art to give her internal life visual form. She put herself into her painted world — in self-portraits, landscapes, interior scenes, and still lifes — through the use of personal symbols and enigmatic female figures. She probed her consciousness, mined her memories, drew on her dreams, and found the peculiar in everyday life, painting, as she said,…