Cleveland Museum of Art

The Pie Wagon

Carl Gaertner

Date

c. 1926

Medium

oil on canvas

Culture

America, Ohio, Cleveland

Department

American Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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

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