The Furnace
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 88.9 × 104.8 cm · framed: 110.5 × 110.8 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Huntington National Bank
Accession Number
2013.66
Tags
Cleveland SchoolCleveland Institute of Art (faculty)May ShowCleveland Institute of Art (alumni)male
About this artwork
One of the most widely exhibited artists working in Cleveland during the second quarter of the 1900s, Gaertner specialized in painting the city and its environs. Among his favored subjects were scenes of Cleveland’s manufacturing heyday, including The Furnace, a composition praised at the time by a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art for capturing "admirably the sense of drama and power of industrial achievement."