Figures, Fantasies and Frontiers: The Art Books Shaping Summer 2025

Megan Fox Kelly, Observer, July 23, 2025

An overdue and authoritative survey of a surrealist painter who quietly defined her own world in midcentury Chicago, this book is as eccentric and haunting as Abercrombie’s dreamlike interiors and lone female figures. Drawing from art history, jazz and personal mythology, her work is finally receiving the critical attention it deserves.