Owl

Arts of the Americas

1955

Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909–1977)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Gertrude Abercrombie
Title: Owl
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1955
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, bottom-left, in black paint: “Abercrombie 55”.
Dimensions: 7.8 × 6 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Sylvia Simons Sights
Reference Number: 2010.552

Sylvia Sights (1926-2009; born Simons), Chicago, by 2009; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010.

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