id:			172956
accession number:	1936.2699
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.2699
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:47.266000

Dry Creek Country, 1936. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Gouache; framed: 47 x 57.2 cm (18 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1936.2699 © Carl Gaertner

title:				Dry Creek Country
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creation date:			1936
creation date earliest:		1936
creation date latest:		1936
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creditline:			Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
copyright:			© Carl Gaertner

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culture:	America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique:	gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American - Cleveland School
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952)  - 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 Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Ora Coltman and George Adomeit. One of the most widely exhibited artists working in Cleveland, Gaertner showed at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1922–53), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1924–52), the Art Institute of Chicago (1925–49), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1943–48), and the National Academy of Design (1944–50). The Cleveland School of Art organized solo exhibitions of his paintings (1928, 1941), as did the Philadelphia Art Alliance (1948). In 1945 he began a long association with the Macbeth Galleries in New York. In 1952, after experiencing a severe headache while teaching at the art school, he went home and died unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage. <br><em>Transformations in Cleveland Art </em>(CMA, 1996), p. 228
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measurements: Framed: 47 x 57.2 cm (18 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The May Show: 18th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
	opening date:   1936-05-06T04:00:00
	<i>The May Show: 18th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 6-June 14, 1936).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Carl Gaertner Entry Card to 1936 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMS03961/

	Cleveland Institute of Art. Carl Gaertner Memorial Exhibition; <em>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by Carl Gaertner.</em> [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p.16,cat.10.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CarlGaertner

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