In Gallery 262 of the Art Institute there hangs a painting by a Chicago artist named Gertrude Abercrombie. It’s a compelling portrait, spooky actually, but it seems to attract little attention.

Appraisal: 1945 Gertrude Abercrombie Surrealist Painting. GUEST: When I was a little kid, my parents got it at a yard sale in Chicago.

Gertrude Abercrombie, Self and Cat (Possims), 1953, oil on canvas, 34 x 24 in. Collection of Laura and Gary Maurer Art: Gertrude Abercrombie. Up next in our series of interviews with notable, ...

A single-owner, single-artist auction of works by the late Chicago painter Gertrude Abercrombie scored more the $2.8 million this week, overhauling the once-overlooked figure’s auction record ...

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) thought herself ugly yet couldn’t stop painting self-portraits. Not many of the forty-some pictures in “Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape,” now at the ...

Painter Gertrude Abercrombie, the artist at the center of our cover story this week (p. 13), captured similarly intimate city-life curiosities and haunting imagery in her work.

The work by Chicago surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie was among the 36 paintings stolen from Stern’s Wilmette home in 1977. ... most of Abercrombie’s paintings relate to her life.

Of all things, painter Gertrude Abercrombie was born right here in Austin in 1909 to traveling German opera singers, and the family subsequently lived in Berlin and Chicago, among other places.

In Extraordinary Finds 3, discover what happens to this 1945 Gertrude Abercrombie surrealist painting after it was appraised by Aaron Bastian in 2019. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on ...