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Gertrude Abercrombie was born on 17 February, 1909 in Austin, Texas, United States, is an American painter. Discover Gertrude Abercrombie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 17 February 1909
Birthday 17 February
Birthplace Austin, Texas, United States
Date of death 3 July, 1977
Died Place Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality United States

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1909

Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 – July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago.

Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work.

Abercrombie was born on February 17, 1909, in Austin, Texas.

Her parents, Tom and Lula Janes Abercrombie, were traveling opera singers who happened to be in Austin on the day of Gertrude's birth.

1913

The family lived in Berlin in 1913 to further her mother's career, but the beginning of World War I caused the family to move back to the United States.

1916

Upon their return the family lived in Aledo, Illinois, before settling in Hyde Park, Chicago in 1916.

She was raised in a strict Christian Scientist environment at home.

1929

She earned a degree in Romance languages from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1929.

After studying figure drawing briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, she took a year-long course in commercial art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, leading to her first job drawing gloves for Mesirow Department Store advertisements.

She also worked briefly as an artist for Sears.

1930

In the mid-1930s she moved out of her family's home and became active in the regional art scene.

During the 1930s and 1940s she also began creating woodcuts.

1932

In 1932, she began to focus strictly on her art.

The following summer she made her first sale at an outdoor art fair in Chicago and received an honorable mention in the newspaper for the event.

1934

From 1934 to 1940 she served as a painter for the Works Progress Administration and in 1934 the Chicago Society of Artists held a solo show of her work.

1940

In 1940, she married lawyer Robert Livingston, and in 1942 gave birth to their daughter Dinah.

The 1940s and '50s are described as her most prolific and productive period; a time when she no longer painted many portraits, but retained the themes mentioned above.

Abercrombie's mature works are painted in a precise, controlled style.

She took little interest in other artists' work, although she admired Magritte.

Largely self-taught, she did not regard her lack of extensive formal training as a hindrance.

She said of her work: "I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace. I like and like to paint simple things that are a little strange. My work comes directly from my inner consciousness and it must come easily. It is a process of selection and reduction."

Her work evolved into incorporating her love for jazz music, inspired by parties and jam sessions she hosted in her Hyde Park home.

Musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Jackie Cain and the Modern Jazz Quartet were considered friends.

1948

In 1948 the couple divorced.

That same year she married music critic Frank Sandiford, with Dizzy Gillespie performing at the wedding.

The couple were active in the bohemian lifestyle and jazz scene of Chicago hence their connection with Gillespie.

They met musicians through Sandiford and through Abercrombie's own skills as an improvisational pianist.

1950

By the late 1950s, her health declined due to financial trouble, alcoholism, and arthritis, and she became reclusive.

1959

After 1959, her paintings diminished in number as well as scale.

She required a wheelchair and was eventually bedridden.

In the final year of her life, a major retrospective of her work was held at the Hyde Park Art Center.

1964

The couple would divorce in 1964.

Within Abercrombie's avant-garde social circle she was the inspiration for the song "Gertrude's Bounce" by Richie Powell, who claimed that she walked "just like the way the rhythm sounds in the Introduction", and she appeared as herself in James Purdy's Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue and as a fictional character in Purdy's Malcolm, Eustace Chisholm.

1977

She died in Chicago on July 3, 1977.

Her will established the Gertrude Abercrombie Trust which distributed her work and the work of other artists she owned to cultural institutions throughout the Midwest.

Abercrombie painted many variations of her favored subjects: sparsely furnished interiors, barren landscapes, self-portraits, and still-lifes.

Many compositions feature a lone woman in a flowing gown, often depicted with attributes of sorcery: an owl, a black cat, a crystal ball, or a broomstick.

These works were often self-portraits, as she stated in an interview with Studs Terkel shortly before her death: "it is always myself that I paint".

Tall and sharp-featured, she considered herself ugly; in life she sometimes wore a pointed velvet hat to accentuate her witch-like appearance, "enjoy[ing] the power this artifice gave her over others who would fear or recoil from her".

Abercrombie also drew inspiration from her dreams as a "self-proclaimed" source for her paintings to convey reality, but with illusions of fantasy.