Exhibited and Illustrated: Gertrude Abercrombie, retrospective exhibition, 1991, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL. (p.63)
This is a very rare and important work by this artist. 20,000-30,000
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| 634. Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909-1977), "Demolition Doors", c.1959; oil/canvas, 26" x 34", signed and dated; artist's label verso with title, #2001, and original price of $750. Abercrombie graduated in 1929 from the University of Illinois with a degree in the Romance languages. She became interested in the visual arts in the early 1930s, and first exhibited at the Portraits of Chicago Artists by Chicago Artists, in 1932. Throughout the 1930s, she exhibited at mostly non-juried, avant-garde exhibitions at galleries in Chicago. She lived in the Hyde Park area of Chicago, which became a site for urban renewal in the mid to late 1950s. Susan Weininger writes in the exhibition catalog for a retrospective show on the artist (Illinois State Museum, Springfield, 1991), "It was common at the time to surround demolition sites with doors taken from the building being torn down. Abercrombie was fascinated with the way these doors looked and they provided her with the only urban subject matter she ever addressed." Exhibited and Illustrated: Gertrude Abercrombie, retrospective exhibition, 1991, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL. (p.63) This is a very rare and important work by this artist. 20,000-30,000 |
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