Self-Portrait of My Sister

1. Mrs. Scott Elliott (born 1932, also Eileen Cropley), Chicago, by 1977 [Hyde Park Art Center 1977, 52]. Gordon Cameron, Chicago, by 1991 [Weininger and Smith 1991, 90]. With Robert Henry Adams Fine Arts, Chicago, 1994 [this and the following according to Greenhouse and Weininger 2004, 243]; sold to Powell and Barbara Bridges (The Bridges Collection), Wilmette, IL, 1994; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2009.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em>, Oct. 30, 1941–Jan. 4, 1942, cat. 1, as <em>Self-Portrait of My Sister</em>.
• New York, Associated American Artist Galleries, <em>First Exhibition of Paintings by Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, Jan. 24–Feb. 6, 1949, checklist no. 9, as <em>Self Portrait</em>.
• Athens, OH, Ohio University, 1947, no cat.
• Chicago Public Library, Art Room, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, 1948.
• Chicago, Mandel Brothers Gallery, <em>Exhibition of Chicago Artists' Self-Portraits</em>, 1953.
• Chicago, Newman Brown Gallery, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, Sept. 1953, checklist no. 10, as <em>Self Portrait</em>.
• Aurora, IL, John Fordon Gallery, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, Aug. 1953, checklist no. 27.
• Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie: A Retrospective Exhibition</em>, 1977, cat. 25, as <em>Self Portrait</em>.
• Chicago, State of Illinois Art Gallery, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, Mar. 18-May 17, 1991, no cat. no. (ill.); Springfield, IL, Illinois State Museum, July 2 –Oct. 15, 1991.
• Chicago Gallery, Illinois State Museum, <em>Chicago Painting, 1895–1945: The Bridges Collection</em>, Jan. 31-May 19, 2000, cat. 1 (ill.) (cat. published 2004); Whittington, IL, Illinois State Museum, Southern Illinois Art Gallery, Sept. 17, 2000-Jan. 15, 2001; Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Feb. 11-Sept. 2, 2001; Lockport Gallery, Illinois State Museum, Sept. 22-Dec. 22, 2001.
• Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, <em>Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New</em>, July 17–Oct. 31, 2004, cat. 1 (ill.).
• Madison, WI, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, <em>With Friends–Six Magic Realists</em>, June 18–Aug. 28, 2005, no cat. no. (ill.).

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1941), cat. 1, as <em>Self-Portrait of My Sister</em>.
• Betty Walker, “No Man’s Land” <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> (Nov. 21, 1948): 3x (the artist shown working on the painting).
• Associated American Artist Galleries, <em>First Exhibition of Paintings by Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, exh. cat. (Associated American Artist Galleries, 1949), checklist no. 9, as <em>Self Portrait</em>.
• Frank Holland, “Chicago Artists Exhibit Self-Portraits” <em>Chicago Sun Times</em> (Jan. 18, 1953): section 2, 10 (ill.).
• Hyde Park Art Center, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie: a Retrospective Exhibition</em>, exh. cat. (Hyde Park Art Center, 1977), 52, cat. 25.
• Susan Weininger and Kent Smith, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, exh. cat. (Illinois State Museum, 1991), 4, 54, 76, 90 (the artist shown working on the painting; ill.).
• Wendy Greenhouse and Susan Weininger, <em>Chicago Painting, 1895–1945, The Bridges Collection</em>, exh. cat. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 84-85, 240, cat. 1 (the artist shown working on the painting; ill.).
• Elizabeth Kennedy, Wendy Greenhouse, Daniel Schulman, and Susan Weininger, <em>Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New</em>, exh. cat. (Terra Museum of American Art, 2004), 80, 162, cat. 1 (ill.).
• Robert Cozzolino, <em>With Friends–Six Magic Realists</em>, exh. cat. (Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005), 79, pl. 13 (ill.).
• Robert Cozzolino, <em>Art in Chicago–Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism</em>, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2007), 34, cat. 17 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago<em>Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report</em> (2008–2009): 16.
• Ilene Susan Fort, Teresa Arcq, Terri Geis, and Dawn Ades, <em>In Wonderland: The Surrealist Activities of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States</em>, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012), 42, cat. 24 (ill.).

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