Gertrude Abercrombie’s Band of Midwest Magic Realists

John Wilde, “Karl Priebe, Gertrude Abercrombie, Dudley Huppler, Marshall Glasier, Sylvia Fein, a Friend, Arnold Dadian and Myself” (1966) (all photos Debra Brehmer/Hyperallergic)MILWAUKEE — In the 1940s, a small band of Midwest artists dubbed the “Magic Realists” began making work that tapped into...