The Past and the Present

1. The artist, Chicago; to the Gertrude Abercrombie Trust, Chicago, July 3, 1977 [letters from Don Baum, July 10 and Sept. 15, 1978; incoming receipt, RX11733, Sept. 20, 1978; copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Associated American Artist Galleries, <em>First Exhibition––Paintings: Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, Jan. 24–Feb. 6, 1946, no. cat. no.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8625/chicago-and-vicinity-50th-annual"><em>The Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity</em></a>, Mar. 28–May 12, 1946, cat. 1 (awarded the William and Bertha Clusmann Prize).
• Chicago Public Library, The Art Room, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, Nov. 1948.
• Winnetka, IL, Leonard Linn, Inc., Feb. 1952, no. cat. no.
• Chicago, Stevens–Gross Galleries, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie: Paintings</em>, Mar. 7–Apr. 4, 1952, no. cat. no.
• Springfield, MA, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, <em>Twelfth Annual Spring Purchase Exhibition</em>, Apr. 20–May 25, 1952.
• Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, Nov. 4, 1956.
• Springfield, Illinois State Museum, <em>Painters and Sculptors in Illinois 1820–1945</em>, Oct. 30–Dec. 12, 1971, cat. 63; Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Feb. 6–27, 1972; Peoria, IL, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Mar. 10–Apr. 16, 1972; Chicago Historical Society, Apr. 26–June 24, 1972.
• Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie: A Retrospective Exhibition</em>, Jan. 28–Mar. 5, 1977, cat. 40.
• New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Art Gallery, <em>Realism and Realities: the Other Side of American Painting 1940–1960</em>, Jan. 17–Mar. 26, 1982, cat. 2; AL, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Apr. 15–June 13, 1982; College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Sept. 7–Oct. 18, 1982.
• Chicago, State of Illinois Art Gallery, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, Mar. 18-May 17, 1991, no cat. no.; Springfield, IL, Illinois State Museum, July 2 –Oct. 15, 1991.
• Madison, WI, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, <em>With Friends: Six Magic Realists</em>, 1940–1965, June 18–Sept. 18, 2005, no cat. no.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Fiftieth Annual Exhibition, Artists of Chicago and Vicinity</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), n.p., cat. 1, plate 3 (ill.).
• "Artists of Chicago Open 50th Local Annual––Split $3,475 Purse," <em>The Art Digest</em> 20, no. 14 (Apr. 15, 1946): 8 (ill.).
• Katherine Kuh, "A Golden Anniversary for Chicago Art," <em>Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin</em> 40, no. 4, part 1 (Apr.–May 1947): 41 (ill.).
• Frank Holland, "Gertrude Abercrombie Wins New Art Laurels," <em>Chicago Sun–Times</em> (Nov. 21, 1948): 8X.
• Betty Walker, “No Man’s Land” <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> (Nov. 21, 1948): 3X (ill., the artist shown painting this work).
• Frank Sandiford, "About Gertrude," <em>Chicago Photographic</em> III (Summer 1950): (ill.).
• Illinois Arts Council, <em>Painters and Sculptors in Illinois 1820–1945</em>, exh. cat. (The Illinois Arts Council, 1971), cat. 63.
• Hyde Park Art Center, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie: A Retrospective Exhibition</em>, exh. cat. (Hyde Park Art Center, 1977), frontispiece, cat. 40 (ill.).
• Greta Berman and Jeffrey Wechsler, <em>Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Paintings, 1940–1960</em>, exh. cat. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1982), 134, cat. 2, fig. 163 (ill.).
• Susan Weininger and Kent Smith, <em>Gertrude Abercrombie</em>, exh. cat. (Illinois State Museum, 1991), 56, 91, no cat. no. (ill.).
• Robet Cozzolino, <em>With Friends: Six Magic Realists, 1940–1965</em>, exh. cat. (Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005), 31, pl. 12 (ill.).
• Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 16, fig. 10 (ill.).

Self-Portrait of My Sister

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Art Institute of Chicago

Owl

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Hope Abelson

Art Institute of Chicago

Nude Portrait of Gertrude Abercrombie

Art Institute of Chicago

Cat and I - print #1 of 52 in the 1936 Calendar of The Chicago Society of Artists

Art Institute of Chicago

Leaves and Shell

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Daughter of Gertrude Abercrombie)

Art Institute of Chicago

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