id: 304662 accession number: 2017.201 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.201 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:56.890000 Bend at Storm King, 1950. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Gouache on Masonite; 61 x 101.6 cm (24 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Frances P. Taft, Trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973-2017 2017.201 © Carl Gaertner title: Bend at Storm King title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1950 creation date earliest: 1950 creation date latest: 1950 current location: creditline: Bequest of Frances P. Taft, Trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973-2017 copyright: © Carl Gaertner --- culture: America technique: Gouache on Masonite department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting 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.
Transformations in Cleveland Art (CMA, 1996), p. 228 --- measurements: 61 x 101.6 cm (24 x 40 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 32nd Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1950-05-03T04:00:00 The May Show: 32nd Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-June 11, 1950). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES