The auction of the estates of Peter Tillou and Gertrude Abercrombie
The surreal art of the Chicago saloniste Gertrude Abercrombie
About forty works of art—mostly paintings—by the self-anointed “Queen of Chicago,” are on view in Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape, a show that originated at the Elmhurst Art Museum and will be presented at the Illinois State Museum this spring.