The Pie Wagon
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mrs. Carl Gaertner
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The Pie Wagon

c. 1926
Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952) visual detail
ArtistCarl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952)
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The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983). Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989). Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945. Columbus Museum of Art (January 5-March 3, 1996); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (April 5-June 2, 1996); The Butler Institute of American Art (organizer) (June 30-August 18, 1996). Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (February 18-April 30, 2000). Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 28-July 18, 2004). Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (18 February-30 April 2000); exh. cat. no. 86, repr. p. 175, p. 272. Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (28 March-18 July, 2004); no exhibition catalogue.

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One of the most widely exhibited artists working in Cleveland, Gaertner specialized in painting the city and its environs. His favored subjects include scenes of Cleveland’s industrial heyday, including <em>The Pie Wagon</em>. In this painting, the artist focused attention on the laborers who spend their lunch break milling around a horse-drawn bakery wagon in the shadows of the hulking factories.

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