“Incongruity is the secret to art,” said the Chicago Surrealist painter Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977)—and she gave herself plenty of discrepant ingredients to work with ...

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 ...

“Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery,” on view through June 1 at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, is the most comprehensive museum presentation of the artist’s work to ...

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 ...

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 ...