Carl Gaertner

After 1935, Gaertner bought a farm in Chagrin Valley and began his series of paintings of that subject.

Also in the Akron collection is Summer Kitchen, a gouache on fiberboard painting done in 1947 and The Commuter, an oil on fiberboard painting done in 1945 which shows a man standing on a train platform and is based on sketches Gaertner did while riding the train to New York City to visit his art dealer.

[3] The Cleveland Museum of Art owns several other Gaertner works, including an oil painting titled The Pie Wagon.

Painted in 1926, this work focuses attention on laborers at an industrial plant who spend their lunch break milling around a horse-drawn bakery wagon in the shadows of the hulking factories.

[4] Gaertner was an important Cleveland artist who was just achieving national acclaim before his early death at the age of 54.