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Lot Description

Gertrude Abercrombie

(American, 1909-1977)

Visit at Midnight (Road Leading Home)

, 1941

oil on canvas

signed Abercrombie and dated (lower left)

16 x 20 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:
The Artist
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Crawford, San Francisco, California, Acquired from the Artist, 1949
Sold: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, December 12, 2010, Lot 55 (as Moonlight Path)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners

Exhibited:
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Third Biennial of Contemporary American Paintings, March 4 - April 14, 1942 (as Visit at Midnight), p. 9, no. 1
Chicago, Lenabel Pokrass Gallery (as Road Leading Home)
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 1943 (as Road Leading Home)
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Gertrude Abercrombie and Harold Noecker, May 11 - June 18, 1944 (as Visit at Midnight)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Institute, Thirty-First Annual Exhibition of Wisconsin Art, 1944 (as Road Leading Home)
Chicago, Marshall Field Gallery, 1944 (as Road Leading Home)
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, First Exhibition––Paintings, Gertrude Abercrombie, January 24 - February 6, 1946, no. 7 (as Visit at Midnight)
Athens, Ohio University, 1947 (as Road Leading Home)
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) (as Visit at Midnite)
New York, Karma, Gertrude Abercrombie, August 9 - September 23, 2018 (as Moonlight Path (Visit at Midnite))

Literature:
"Peyton Boswell Comments: The Editor's "Ten,'" The Art Digest 16, 2 (1942) 3 (as Visit at Midnight)
Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston, Studs Terkel, Gertrude Abercrombie, New York, 2018, pp. 181; 482, illus.

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