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The Pie Wagon

The Pie Wagon

c. 1926
(American, 1898–1952)
America, Ohio, Cleveland
oil on canvas
Unframed: 105.8 x 153 cm (41 5/8 x 60 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Carl Gaertner 1953.371
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Star Bakery—identified by the logo on the wagon—was a flourishing business in Cleveland at the time.

Description

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 The Pie Wagon. 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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    Cleveland Institute of Art. Carl Gaertner Memorial Exhibition; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by Carl Gaertner. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953. Mentioned: p.15, cat. 4 archive.org
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    The Cleveland Institute of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Institute of Art--100 Years: December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p.29; Reproduced:p.17
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    Channing, Laurence, "Before Neo: The May Show", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 07, September 2005 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 3 archive.org
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1953.371