CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/11/2025

'Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery' opens at Colby Museum

“There is magic everywhere if you stop and look and listen. … Everything is strange. I think it’s a scream we’re here at all … don’t you?” So the under-published midcentury Chicago Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie is quoted in the innovatively designed exhibition catalog, The Whole World is a Mystery, published to accompany the Abercrombie retrospective opening July 12 at Colby College Museum of Art, en route to Milwaulkee Art Museum and Norton Museum of Art through April 2027. Featured image is Demolition Doors (1964).