“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 ...

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 plenty of discrepant ingredients to work with ...