Gertrude Abercrombie - The Whole World Is a Mystery (light wear)

Gertrude Abercrombie - The Whole World Is a Mystery / large 224-page hardback, 9.53 x 12.13 inches, published in 2025 by DelMonico Books / ISBN 9781636811550 Highly recommended. (The last book about Abercrombie has been impossible to get for four years.) *** A sumptuously produced retrospective on the beloved and under-published Chicago-based Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, the "queen of the bohemian artists" This book is the definitive scholarly volume on Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art and jazz scenes. Abercrombie was a creative force of singular vision who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings full of personal significance. With a deft hand, a concise symbolic vocabulary and a restrained palette, she produced potent images that speak to her mercurial nature and her evolving psychology as an artist. Cats, owls, doors, moons, barren trees, seashells and searching female figures all converge