id:			86416
accession number:	2015.519
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.519
updated:		2025-02-08 22:05:08.100000

Study for "Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park)", ca. 1932. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Black crayon on wove paper; sheet: 15.3 x 22.8 cm (6 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carol and Mike Sherwin 2015.519 © Carl Gaertner

title:				Study for "Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park)"
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creation date:			ca. 1932
creation date earliest:		1927
creation date latest:		1937
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creditline:			Gift of Carol and Mike Sherwin
copyright:			© Carl Gaertner

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culture:	America
technique:	black crayon on wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 20th Century
type:		Drawing
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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. <br><em>Transformations in Cleveland Art </em>(CMA, 1996), p. 228
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measurements: Sheet: 15.3 x 22.8 cm (6 x 9 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Adele Schwarz Gaertner (widow of the artist) [1893-1953]
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	Carol and Michael Sherwin Collection, Cleveland, OH
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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CITATIONS

	"Flying Ponies.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 56, no. 6 (November/December 2016): 16.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 16.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-06

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