Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977) was a Chicago-based painter. Basically self-taught, she was inspired by Rene Magritte or perhaps Paul Delvaux to create small, highly distinctive Surrealist paintings.

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

A few months before she died in July 1977, the Chicago painter Gertrude Abercrombie-by then largely housebound and plagued by the arthritis that had forced her to stop painting years earlier-gave ...

"Where or When (Things Past)" by Gertrude Abercrombie, one of the 6,000 artworks in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's permanent collection, is on display in Pittsburgh and in the pages of this ...