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accession number: 2013.66
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The Furnace, 1924. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Oil on canvas; framed: 110.5 x 110.8 cm (43 1/2 x 43 5/8 in.); unframed: 88.9 x 104.8 cm (35 x 41 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Huntington National Bank 2013.66
title: The Furnace
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creation date: 1924
creation date earliest: 1924
creation date latest: 1924
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creditline: Gift of The Huntington National Bank
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culture: America, 20th century
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: Framed: 110.5 x 110.8 cm (43 1/2 x 43 5/8 in.); Unframed: 88.9 x 104.8 cm (35 x 41 1/4 in.)
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inscription: signed lower right: C.F. Gaertner
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The May Show: 6th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
opening date: 1924-05-06T04:00:00
The May Show: 6th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-June 8, 1924).
title: A Study in Regional Taste: May Show 1919 - 1975
opening date: 1977-07-13T04:00:00
A Study in Regional Taste: May Show 1919 - 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-August 21, 1977).
title: Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946
opening date: 1996-05-19T04:00:00
Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
The collection of the artist
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Union Lennox Company, Cleveland, Ohio
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Union Commerce Bank Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
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The Huntington National Bank Collection, Columbus, Ohio
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Adams, Henry. The Golden Age of Cleveland Art: 1900 to 1945, exh. cat. (Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve Historical Society, 2022), p. 72.
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Hoffman, Jay, Dee Driscole, and Mary Clare Zahler. A Study in Regional Taste: The May Show, 1919-1975. (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977)
page number: Reproduced p. 48
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Carl Gaertner Entry Card to 1924 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives, exhibited as The Shops.
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url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS00767
Robinson, William H., et. al. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: p. 106, 110; Mentioned: p.110, fig. 110
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Kraynak, Scott, Henry Adams, Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, R. A. Washington, and Mike Hudson. The Heart of Cleveland. Shaker Hts, OH: Red Giant Books, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: P. 24, fig. 16
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Johnston, April Nehring. The Making of Cleveland's Artist: The Aesthetic and Cultural Politics of Boundary Crossing in the Industrial Landscape Paintings of Carl Gaertner, 1923-1952. Thesis, Washington University, 2019.
page number: Mentioned: P. xvi, 24, 25, 39, 56, 67; Reproduced: P. xvi, 25, fig. 1.7
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