Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909-1977) Solitude, 1942 oil on masonite signed Abercrombie and dated (lower left) 20 1/2 x 40 1/4 inches. Provenance: The Artist Emma or Dolph Loeb, gift from the Artist Tom and Virginia Cresswell, Michigan City, Indiana, by 1983 Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago Acquired from the above by the present owners, September 16, 1999 Exhibited: Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 46th Annual Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, April 12 - May 26, 1942, no. 1 Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Art Institute, 1943 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1944 New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, First Exhibition-Paintings, Gertrude Abercrombie, January 24 - February 6, 1946, no. 10 Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Elmhurst, Illinois, Elmhurst Art Museum, Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape, January 20 - March 4, 2018 (also travelled to Springfield, Illinois State Museum, March 23 - June 15, 2018) New York, Karma, Gertrude Abercrombie, August 9 - September 23, 2018 Literature: Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston, Studs Terkel, Gertrude Abercrombie, New York, 2018, pp. 200-201; 482, illus.