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The Pie Wagon
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Pie Wagon, c. 1926. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Oil on canvas; unframed: 105.8 x 153 cm (41 5/8 x 60 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carl Gaertner, 1953.371
