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accession number: 2020.243
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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 © Carl Gaertner
title: Flying Ponies (Euclid Beach Park)
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creation date: 1932
creation date earliest: 1932
creation date latest: 1932
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creditline: Gift of Carol and Michael Sherwin
copyright: © Carl Gaertner
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
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: Unframed: 113 x 169.5 cm (44 1/2 x 66 3/4 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Carol and Michael Sherwin, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 2020-
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2020–
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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. 87-89; reproduced: P. 87, fig. 4.5
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