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to Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 – July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene〔Richard Vine, "(Where the Wild Things Were )", ''Art in America'', May 1997, pp. 98-111〕 and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work.〔Warren, Lynn, ''Art in Chicago 1945-1995'', Thames & Hudson, 1996 ISBN 978-0-500-23728-1〕 ==Early life== Abercrombie was born on February 17, 1909, in Austin, Texas. Her parents, Tom and Lula Janes Abercrombie, were traveling opera singers who happened to be in Austin on the day of Gertrude's birth. The family lived in Berlin in 1913 to further her mother's career, but the beginning of World War I caused the family to move back to the United States.〔 Upon their return the family lived in Aledo, Illinois before settling in Hyde Park, Chicago in 1916. She was raised in a strict Christian Scientist environment at home. She earned a degree in Romance Language from the University of Illinois in 1929.〔Weininger and Smith 1991, p. 12.〕 After studying figure drawing briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, she took a year-long course in commercial art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, leading to her first job drawing gloves for Mesirow Department Store advertisements. She also worked briefly as an artist for Sears.〔 In the mid-1930s she moved out of her family's home and became active in the regional art scene.〔 In 1940 she married lawyer Robert Livingston, and in 1942 gave birth to their daughter Dinah. In 1948 the couple divorced. That same year she married music critic Frank Sandiford, with Dizzy Gillespie performing at the wedding. The couple were active in the bohemian lifestyle and jazz scene of Chicago hence their connection with Gillespie. They met musicians through Sandiford and through Abercrombie's own skills as an improvisational pianist. The couple would divorce in 1964.〔 Within Abercrombie's avant garde social circle she was the inspiration for the song "Gertrude's Bounce" by Richie Powell, who claimed that she walked "just like the way the rhythm sounds in the Introduction",〔LP sleeve notes by Alun Morgan for Clifford Brown and Max Roach, ''I Remember Clifford'' (Mercury MMC 14041)〕 and she appeared as herself in James Purdy's ''Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue'' and as a fictional character in Purdy's ''Malcolm, Eustace Chisholm''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gertrude Abercrombie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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