29. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898-1952)

"Building The Dam".
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, dated 1930, framed.
35" x 41".

Tag on reverse: Cleveland Museum of Art 13th May Show (1931).

Cleveland School Artist. Gaertner was born in Cleveland and specialized in painting industrial and urban landscapes. He studied mechanical drawing as a high school student, but during his senior year turned to painting. In 1920 he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art, graduating three years later after studying with Henry Keller and Frank Wilcox. Shortly after he graduated, Gaertner was hired by his alma mater to teach painting. During the 1920s and 30s he went on regular summer painting excursions to the artist's colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts with fellow Cleveland landscape painters, George Adomeit and Ora Coltman. Gaertner was in no way a provincial figure, for he exhibited in the most significant American juried exhibitions. He died unexpectedly in 1952 of a brain hemmorhage, cutting short a distinguished career which was just on the verge of taking off. This spring Gaertner's work was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition mounted by the Cleveland Artists Foundation at the Beck Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

5,000/8,000     SOLD: $4,600.00

Condition: very slightly yellowed varnish.