1915: 5728 S. Dorchester St., Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago
Painter-Acrylic, Printmaker
1929: BA in romance languages, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
1929: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1929: American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois
1932: Portraits of Chicago Artists by Chicago Artists, Increase Robinson's Studio Gallery, Chicago
1933: Grant Park Outdoor Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois
1934, 1936, 1937: Annual Exhibitions, Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
1934-1937: Annual Exhibitions, Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
1935: Salon des Refuses, Davis Store Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
1940: International Water Color Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1935-1936: Traveling Exhibition of the Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
1935-1944, 1946-1951, 1953, 1955, 1960, 1967: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1945: Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1946: Solo, Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, New York
1947 - circa 1972: Hyde Park Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois
1948: Solo, Chicago Public Library, Art Room, Chicago, Illinois
1948: Contemporary American Painting, 1948-1951, Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
1952-1954, 1956-1958: Artist Member Exhibition, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1952-1964: Solo, various galleries in Chicago, Aurora and Winnetka, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1977: Solo, Retrospective Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Century, Chicago, Illinois
1983: Gertrude Abercrombie and Friends, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
1991: Gertrude Abercrombie, State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago and Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
The New Woman in Chicago, 1910-1945: Paintings from Illinois Collections, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
1993: Art Gallery (Chicago), Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois
2018: Gertrude Abercrombie, Karma, 188 E. 2nd St., New York, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Burbank School, Chicago, Illinois
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Illinois State University Gallery, Normal, Illinois
Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois
Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, Illinois
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC
Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb, Illinois
Private Collection of Powell and Barbara Bridges Collection, Wilmette, Illinois
Falk, Peter Hastings. Who Was Who in American Art 1898 to 1947. Madison, CN: Soundview Press, 1985.
Gertrude Abercrombie at www.sullivangoss.com/gertrude_abercrombie/
Greenhouse, Wendy. Chicago Painting, 1895-1945: The Bridges Collection. Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1999.
Illinois State Museum. The Emergence of Modernism in Illinois 1914-1940. Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1976.
Illinois State Museum. Gertrude Abercrombie and Friends. Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1983.
Smith, Kent and Susan Weininger. Gertrude Abercrombie: an exhibition. Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1991.
Weininger, Susan. "Gertrude Abercrombie." Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Yochim, Louise Dunn. Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists. Chicago: The Society, 1979.
1930s: Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists
circa 1930s to 1940s: Chicago Society of Artists
1936: Joseph Eisendrath Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1938: Mr. & Mrs. Frank H. Armstrong Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1946: William and Bertha Clusmann Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1931: commercial artist, Mesirow department store, Chicago, Illinois
Art Historian Susan Weininger has written two comprehensive biographical essays with additional materials about Gertrude Abercrombie. Please see: The catalog for the 1991 Illinois State Museum retrospective exhibit Gertrude Abercrombie, and the "Gertrude Abercrombie." Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.