id: 126242
accession number: 1948.460
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.460
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The St. Clair Fire, 1944. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Oil on canvas; unframed: 71.1 x 121.9 cm (28 x 48 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of H. Fred Gaertner, in memory of Nellie Gaertner 1948.460 © Carl Gaertner
title: The St. Clair Fire
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creation date: 1944
creation date earliest: 1944
creation date latest: 1944
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creditline: Gift of H. Fred Gaertner, in memory of Nellie Gaertner
copyright: © Carl Gaertner
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Cleveland School
type: Painting
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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.
Transformations in Cleveland Art (CMA, 1996), p. 228
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measurements: Unframed: 71.1 x 121.9 cm (28 x 48 in.)
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inscription: signed lower right: Carl Gaertner 1944
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The May Show: 28th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
opening date: 1946-04-13T05:00:00
The May Show: 28th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 13-June 9, 1946).
title: American Realists
opening date: 1961-03-11T05:00:00
American Realists. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada (organizer) (March 11-April 23, 1961).
title: The Homage Show
opening date: 1962-10-09T04:00:00
The Homage Show. Cleveland Society of Artists, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9-November 9, 1962).
title: Exhibition of Ohio Painters
opening date: 1967-04-04T05:00:00
Exhibition of Ohio Painters. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (organizer) (April 4-30, 1967).
title: May Show Retrospective - 50 Years
opening date: 1968-04-23T05:00:00
May Show Retrospective - 50 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 23-June 16, 1968).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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CITATIONS
Carl Gaertner Entry Card to 1946 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS07461
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 560
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n104
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 195
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n219
Waldman, Lawrence, and Henry Adams. Strange and Lonely Spaces: Magic Realism in Cleveland 1930 - 1960. 2021.
page number: Reproduced: p. 62, fig. 38.
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