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The Pie Wagon
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
signed lower left: Carl Gaertner.
Exhibition history
The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983). Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989). Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945. Columbus Museum of Art (January 5-March 3, 1996); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (April 5-June 2, 1996); The Butler Institute of American Art (organizer) (June 30-August 18, 1996). Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (February 18-April 30, 2000). Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 28-July 18, 2004).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952)
- Date
- c. 1926
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 105.8 x 153 cm (41 5/8 x 60 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Carl Gaertner
- Accession no.
- 1953.371
More by Carl Gaertner in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009419
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