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The Pie Wagon
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One of the most widely exhibited artists working in Cleveland, Gaertner specialized in painting the city and its environs. His favored subjects include scenes of Cleveland’s industrial heyday, including <em>The Pie Wagon</em>. In this painting, the artist focused attention on the laborers who spend their lunch break milling around a horse-drawn bakery wagon in the shadows of the hulking factories.
| Artist / Maker | Carl Gaertner |
|---|---|
| Date | c. 1926 |
| Culture / Origin | America, Ohio, Cleveland |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | Unframed: 105.8 x 153 cm (41 5/8 x 60 1/4 in.) |
| Department | American Painting and Sculpture |
| Type | Painting |
About the Artist
A specialist in American scene subject matter, Cleveland-born Carl Gaertner exhibited an early aptitude for drawing. As a high-school student he studied mechanical design, but during his senior year he decided to make painting his primary avocation. In 1920 he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art, graduating three years later after studying with Henry Keller and Frank Wilcox. In 1925 the school hired Gaertner to teach painting. During the 1920s and 1930s he went on summer painting excursions to… Full biography →
Provenance & Source
Image & data: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0 / Public Domain.
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