Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909-1977) Self and Cat (Possims), 1953 oil on canvas signed Abercrombie and dated (lower left) 34 x 24 inches. Provenance: Collection of Douglas Elliot Sold: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, December 15, 2003, Lot 1 Acquired at the above sale by the present owners Exhibited: Chicago, Newman Brown Gallery, Gertrude Abercrombie, September 1953 Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Fifty-seventh Annual Exhibition, November 12 - December 13, 1953 (label verso, omitted from exhibition catalogue) Chicago, Irv Benjamin s Restaurant, 1954, no. 4 Chicago, State of Illinois Art Gallery, Gertrude Abercrombie, March 18 - May 17, 1991 (also traveled to Springfield, Illinois State Museum, July 28 - October 15, 1991), pp. 76; 93, illus. 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) Literature: Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston, Studs Terkel, Gertrude Abercrombie, New York, 2018, pp. 351; 485, illus.