id: 160982
accession number: 1999.238
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.238
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Eddie and Old Man Morpheus, 1931. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Oil on canvas; framed: 193.6 x 163.2 x 6.5 cm (76 1/4 x 64 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.); overall: 182.5 x 153 cm (71 7/8 x 60 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Shuree Abrams 1999.238 © Carl Gaertner
title: Eddie and Old Man Morpheus
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creation date: 1931
creation date earliest: 1931
creation date latest: 1931
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creditline: Gift of Mrs. Shuree Abrams
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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* 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: Framed: 193.6 x 163.2 x 6.5 cm (76 1/4 x 64 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.); Overall: 182.5 x 153 cm (71 7/8 x 60 1/4 in.)
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