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Lot Description

Gertrude Abercrombie

(American, 1909-1977)

Shell and Drapery

, 1952

oil on canvas

signed Abercrombie and dated (lower right)

24 x 36 inches.

Provenance:
The Artist
Gertrude Abercrombie Trust, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, donated by the above, 1978
Sold: Sotheby's, New York, March 1, 2006, Lot 146
Ted Varndell, Chicago
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owners, October 7, 2008

Exhibited:
Chicago, Devorah Sherman Gallery, October 4 - 31, 1960, no. 16
Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Gertrude Abercrombie, A Retrospective Exhibition, January 28 - March 5, 1977, no. 65
Chicago, State of Illinois Art Gallery, Gertrude Abercrombie, March 18 - May 17, 1991 (also traveled to Springfield, Illinois State Museum, July 28 - October 15, 1991), pp. 64; 93, illus.
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 (as Shell and Drape)

Literature:
Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston, Studs Terkel, Gertrude Abercrombie, New York, 2018, pp. 344-345; 484, illus.

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