id: 130628 accession number: 1953.349 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.349 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:28.554000 Tree Study, 1948. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Watercolor; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1953.349 © Carl Gaertner title: Tree Study title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1948 creation date earliest: 1948 creation date latest: 1948 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: © Carl Gaertner --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: watercolor department: Drawings collection: DR - American - Cleveland School type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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.
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