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Thursday, 7/2, 09:41 AM
Gertrude Abercrombie, Chicago's Surrealist 'Jazz Witch,' Gets Her Due
- The Chicago painter Gertrude Abercrombie spent her life making spare, dreamlike canvases of moons, cats and solitary figures — and hosting jazz greats in her Hyde Park home.
- Nearly 50 years after her death, a major museum retrospective is finally giving her the national recognition she long went without.