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Birth
1909 (Austin, Texas)
Death
1977
Lived/Active
Illinois
Self portrait
Copyright by Owner
Often Known For
surreal imagery, gloves, grapes, hats
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Gertrude Abercrombie, a Chicago painter also deeply involved in jazz
music, has worked with highly personal surreal images. She was a
prominent surrealist in the 1930s through the 1950s in Chicago.
She argued that technique was not as important as ideas and developed a
style emulating naive artists.
The tone of her paintings is
foreboding and references the real and the imaginary with many of them
intended as self portraits. For many years she was associated
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