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| Work
Quotations
| Date: | 1971
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| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Size inches: | c. 15 x 15 3/4 |
| Size cm: | 38 x 40
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| Signature: | Signed lower left and on the reverse |
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| Location: | Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts |
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2013. Accession Number: UR 349
| Image Notes
Inscribed by the artist on the reverse: "Drawings and Paintings by George Deem" / April, 1971 Italy / George Deem / 40 x 38 cm / 16 x 15 inches". Above the inscription the artist inscribed the revised title, "Quotations." According to the artist, he retitled the painting so as to avoid the redundancy of "Drawings and Paintings by George Deem" by George Deem.
Reference
Sir Henry Raeburn, Detail: The Rev. Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch
Millet, The Gleaners
John Hoppner, Richard Humphreys, the Boxer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
| Artist's Notes
April 1971
1977 Allan Stone has following paintings: Drawings & Ptings by Geo. Deem, 1971, 40 x 38 cm, 16 x 15 inches
Drawings and Paintings by George Deem.
At home, in one's own country, an artist sees what he or she is doing. Living in a foreign country, you see what you have done. It is a kind of homesickness. Drawings and Paintings by George Deem is a painting by an American abroad. (George Deem, June 1, 1978. Note written for An Exhibition of Paintings by George Deem, June 12 - July 8, 1978, Merida Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky).
Drawings and Paintings by George Deem The artist later retitled this painting, "Quotations."
| Exhibitions
Merida Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, Maryland
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