Art & Design in Chicago
Painter Gertrude Abercrombie
Clip: Episode 4 | 4m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
They called her the “Queen of the Bohemian Artists."
They called her the “Queen of the Bohemian Artists,” and she presided over gatherings that included Thornton Wilder, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, and others at her Hyde Park home. But she wasn’t just the host of a salon – she herself was an idiosyncratic painter.
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Art & Design in Chicago is a local public television program presented by WTTW
Art & Design in Chicago
Painter Gertrude Abercrombie
Clip: Episode 4 | 4m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
They called her the “Queen of the Bohemian Artists,” and she presided over gatherings that included Thornton Wilder, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, and others at her Hyde Park home. But she wasn’t just the host of a salon – she herself was an idiosyncratic painter.
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