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"tombstone": "Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park), 1932. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898\u20131952). 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. \u00a9 Carl Gaertner",
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"title": "Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park)",
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"measurements": "Unframed: 113 x 169.5 cm (44 1/2 x 66 3/4 in.)",
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"title": "ArtLens Reimagined: The Intersection of Art, Technology, and Innovation",
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"description": "Carl Gaertner: A Story of Earth and Steel, Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH, April 8-July 2, 2000), traveled to the Butler Institute of American Art--Salem, Salem, OH, July 22-September 9, 2000.",
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"description": "Adelle Potter Gaertner, the artist's widow, Willoughby, OH",
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"description": "Study for \"Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park)\", ca. 1932. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898\u20131952). 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. \u00a9 Carl Gaertner",
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"did_you_know": "The arched entrance gate to Euclid Beach Park still stands and is a designated Cleveland landmark.",
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"artlens_description": "INTERACTIVE
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"description": "Among Gaertner\u2019s 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\u2014featuring suspended horses swirling over a dramatically tilted platform\u2014provides the central focus. Its illumination helps bathe the surrounding darkness, revealing visitors engaged in various activities.",
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"citation": "Shearer, Christine Fowler, et al., Carl Gaertner : A Story of Earth and Steel. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 40; reproduced: p. 16.",
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"citation": "Yannopoulos, Charles, \"Dark Reality,\" Cleveland Scene, April 20, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 47.",
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"citation": "Cole, Mark, \"Flying Ponies,\" Cleveland Art 56 (November/December 2016).",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 16.",
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "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",
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"biography": "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\u201353), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1924\u201352), the Art Institute of Chicago (1925\u201349), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1943\u201348), and the National Academy of Design (1944\u201350). 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.
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"updated_at": "2026-08-12 11:07:16.186000"
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