Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art highlights the haunting Surrealist power of the Chicago artist’s small, unflashy canvases.

The mesmerizing retrospective is on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art through June 1 (before traveling after).

Contributed by Jac Lahav / What does “outsider art” mean when the work so labeled is framed in a glossy finish and sold for six figures? When Sanford L. Smith founded the Outsider Art Fair in 1993, he ...

Gertrude Abercrombie, Where or When (Things Past), 1948. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, Gift of the Gertrude Abercrombie Trust, Photo: Paige Holzbauer There’s something ominous ...

“Simple things that are a little strange” is how Chicago painter Gertrude Abercrombie described her enigmatic works that locate the peculiar in everyday life. “Gertrude Abercrombie: The ...

The artist Gertrude Abercrombie is not someone whose name I knew until very recently. But she’s definitely a name to know now. Born in 1909 in Austin, Texas and dying in 1977 in Chicago ...