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Lot 4
Gertrude Abercrombie
(American, 1909-1977)
Solitude 
, 1942
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$120,000 - 180,000
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$150,000
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Lot Description
Gertrude Abercrombie
(American, 1909-1977)
Solitude 
, 1942
oil on masonite
signed Abercrombie and dated (lower left)
20 1/2 x 40 1/4 inches.
This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:
The Artist
Emma or Dolph Loeb, gift from the Artist
Tom and Virginia Cresswell, Michigan City, Indiana, by 1983
Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owners, September 16, 1999

Exhibited:
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 46th Annual Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, April 12 - May 26, 1942, no. 1
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Art Institute, 1943
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1944
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, First Exhibition––Paintings, Gertrude Abercrombie, January 24 - February 6, 1946, no. 10
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota
Elmhurst, Illinois, Elmhurst Art Museum, Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape, January 20 - March 4, 2018 (also travelled to Springfield, Illinois State Museum, March 23 - June 15, 2018)
New York, Karma, Gertrude Abercrombie, August 9 - September 23, 2018

Literature:
Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston, Studs Terkel, Gertrude Abercrombie, New York, 2018, pp. 200-201; 482, illus.
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