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President’s Circle Preview Celebration: “Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery”

March 25, 2026
5:30 pm–8:30 pm
Reservation required
Open to Partner level Members and above

Join us for a festive evening among friends with cocktails, artful bites, and live music as we celebrate Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery, the first nationally touring retrospective of Abercrombie’s enigmatic paintings.

RSVP by Wednesday, March 11, at rsvp@mam.org or 414-224-3259. Not a Partner level Member? Join today or upgrade your membership for access to this and other exclusive events. Call the membership team at 414-224-3284.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to its exhibition sponsors.

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery is co-organized by Carnegie Museum of Art and Colby College Museum of Art, and is curated by Eric Crosby, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Vice President, Carnegie Museums, and Sarah Humphreville, Lunder Curator of American Art, Colby College Museum of Art, with Cynthia Stucki, curatorial assistant, Carnegie Museum of Art.

 

Image: Gertrude Abercombie, Two Ladders (detail), 1947. Oil on Masonite. 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm). Illinois State Museum; Purchase