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1909 Austin, Texas - 1977 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Surreal imagery, gloves, grapes, hats, block printing.
Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 - July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and... Read full biography
Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 - July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music... Read full biography
Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 - July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work. Abercrombie was born on February 17, 1909, in Austin, Texas. Her parents, Tom and Lula Janes Abercrombie, were traveling opera singers who happened to be in Austin on the... Read full biography
Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 - July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work. Abercrombie was born on February 17, 1909, in Austin, Texas. Her parents, Tom and Lula Janes Abercrombie, were traveling opera singers who happened to be in Austin on the day of Gertrude's birth. The family lived in Berlin in 1913 to further her mother's career, but the beginning of World War I caused the family to move back to the United States. Upon their return the family lived in Aledo, Illinois before settling in... Read full biography
Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 - July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work. Abercrombie was born on February 17, 1909, in Austin, Texas. Her parents, Tom and Lula Janes Abercrombie, were traveling opera singers who happened to be in Austin on the day of Gertrude's birth. The family lived in Berlin in 1913 to further her mother's career, but the beginning of World War I caused the family to move back to the United States. Upon their return the family lived in Aledo, Illinois before settling in Hyde Park, Chicago in 1916. She was raised in a strict Christian Scientist environment at home. She earned a degree in Romance Language... Read full biography
Gertrude Abercrombie - Artist Info
About Gertrude Abercrombie: Keywords
Keywords (30)
Art Method
- •Advertising Art
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Bronze
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood Block Print
Art Style
- •Folk Art, Naive, Primitive
- •Naive, Childlike, Intuitive
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Interior Scenes
- •Outer Space, Science Fiction
- •Self-Portrait
- •Still Life
Art Association
- •Chicago Society of Artists
Art School
- •American Academy of Art, Chicago, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Joseph Eisendrath Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
- •Mr. & Mrs. Frank Armstrong Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
- •William and Bertha Clusmann Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Illinois Women Artists Project, Listed
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
- •Wikipedia Category of Top American Women Painters
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Chicago Society of Artists-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago