id:			130973
accession number:	1953.654
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.654
updated:		2025-02-09 01:56:53.341000

The Harbor, c. 1925. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Watercolor; sheet: 32.5 x 38.2 cm (12 13/16 x 15 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift 1953.654

title:				The Harbor
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			c. 1925
creation date earliest:		1920
creation date latest:		1925
current location:		
creditline:			Anonymous Gift
copyright:			

---

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. <br><em>Transformations in Cleveland Art </em>(CMA, 1996), p. 228
---

measurements: Sheet: 32.5 x 38.2 cm (12 13/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	In graphite, recto, lower right: "Carl F. Gaertner (signed)"
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The May Show: 7th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
	opening date:   1925-05-04T04:00:00
	<i>The May Show: 7th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-June 7, 1925).

	title:		The Homage Show
	opening date:   1962-10-09T04:00:00
	<i>The Homage Show</i>. Cleveland Society of Artists, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9-November 9, 1962).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

---

PROVENANCE

---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Carl Gaertner Entry Card to 1925 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
	page number: 	
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMS00931

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.654/1953.654_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.654/1953.654_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.654/1953.654_full.tif