id: 86544 accession number: 2020.243 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.243 updated: 2022-07-27 09:00:06.495000 Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park), 1932. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898-1952). Oil on canvas; unframed: 113 x 169.5 cm (44 1/2 x 66 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carol and Michael Sherwin 2020.243 title: Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1932 creation date earliest: 1932 creation date latest: 1932 current location: creditline: Gift of Carol and Michael Sherwin copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting 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: Unframed: 113 x 169.5 cm (44 1/2 x 66 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Carol and Michael Sherwin, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2020- footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The arched entrance gate to Euclid Beach Park still stands and is a designated Cleveland landmark. digital description: Among Gaertner’s most admired canvases, Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park) presents a nocturnal view of a beloved carousel that was installed at a now defunct amusement park on the shores of Lake Erie. This ride—featuring suspended horses swirling over a dramatically tilted platform—provides the central focus. Its illumination helps bathe the surrounding darkness, revealing visitors engaged in various activities. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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.111; Mentioned: p.110 url: 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. 87-89; reproduced: P. 87, fig. 4.5 url: --- IMAGES