Self-Portrait

Arts of the Americas

1942

Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909–1977)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Gertrude Abercrombie
Title: Self-Portrait
Place: Chicago (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1942
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, bottom-right, on shoulder, in white paint: "Abercrombie 42".
Dimensions: 12.1 × 8.9 cm (4 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Katharine Kuh
Reference Number: 1994.551

Liesl Olson, et al., Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of their Time, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2021), 65, fig. 32 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small–Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 3–Aug. 17, 2003, checklist no. 1.
Chicago, Newberry Library, Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of their Time , Sept. 10–Dec. 30, 2021, no cat. no.

Katharine Kuh (1904–94; born Katharine Woolf), Chicago then New York, by 1994 [incoming receipt, RX20140, Feb. 18, 1994; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

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