Susan Weininger on Gertrude Abercrombie

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In episode 86 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the esteemed scholar Susan Weininger on the surrealist sensation, GERTRUDE ABERCROMBIE!!! Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977) was a formative contributor to mid-century American painting. Based in Chicago, Abercrombie was a surrealist painter and self-dubbed ‘queen of bohemia'. Working independently from the Surrealist group in Europe, Abercrombie spent most of her life immersed in the Chicago jazz scene. With a penchant for cats, crescent and full moons, sinister desert-like landscapes that feature as paintings in bleak, cold interiors, stairs that lead to nowhere or a series of rhythmically coloured doors, Abercrombie forged a unique style, and presented her sometimes postage-stamp-sized paintings in flamboyant frames. Painting some of the most innovative, surrealist, haunting, eerie, bizarre and brilliant, paintings I’ve ever seen – whether they be slightly larger landscapes with moons, cats, doors, or stairs to nowhere, or miniscule paintings of portraits, domestic scenes or still-lifes, or levitating bodies with limbs floating in the air – Abercrombie's works are utterly fascinating. ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Research assistant: Viva Ruggi Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello, great women artists listeners. It's Katie here and just before we get into today's episode, I wanted to let you know I have very excitingly written a book, which is out this September, called The Story of Art Without Men. This book aims to retell art history with pioneering non-male artists who spearheaded movements and redefine the canon. It is available to pre-order now from
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0:27.3	I am so thrilled to be continuing my partnership with the brilliant Alleghiary Jewelry,
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0:44.9	Rosh Matani to guide her through a dark time. Each piece has a story and invites you to unlock your own.
0:51.9	Dante Eligieri was an Italian poet. In the 1300s, he wrote the story of
0:56.5	waking up in hell and making the journey to paradise, creating a book of 100 poems entitled
1:02.4	The Divine Comedy. In the depths of his darkness, Dante is lost in a dark wood and is confronted
1:08.8	by a terrifying lion, so very much that even the air around it was trembling with fear.
1:15.6	Dante is overcome and ready to give up when somehow the Roman poet Virgil appears to guide Dante.
1:22.6	In this moment, despair turns to a flicker of courage.
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2:11.9	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
2:23.3	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015, which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
2:29.3	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is all about celebrating female
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