Self-Portrait by Gertrude Abercrombie
Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Gertrude Abercrombie · 1942

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Katharine Kuh (1904–94; born Katharine Woolf), Chicago then New York, by 1994 [incoming receipt, RX20140, Feb. 18, 1994; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8525/poetics-of-scale-small-sized-works-from-the-collection-of-modern-and-contemporary-art"><em>Poetics of Scale: Small–Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art</em></a>, June 3–Aug. 17, 2003, no. 1.
  • Chicago, Newberry Library, <em>Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of their Time </em>, Sept. 10–Dec. 30, 2021, no cat. no.
  • Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery</em> Jan. 18–June 1, 2026, no cat. no; Waterville, ME, Colby College Museum of Art, July 12, 2025–Jan. 11, 2026; Milwaukee Art Museum, Mar. 27–July 19, 2026; West Palm Beach, FL, Norton Museum of Art, Nov. 21, 2026–Apr. 11, 2027 (Pittsburgh, Waterville, and Milwaukee only).

Literature

Published references

  • Liesl Olson, et al., <em>Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of their Time</em>, exh. cat. (Newberry Library, 2021), 65, fig. 32 (ill.).
  • Eric Crosby, et al., <em>Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery</em>, exh. cat. (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2025), 104, 211, pl. 104 (ill.).

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