George Deem

Related Works

Composition with Goya, 1962

Composition with Goya #4

Composition with Illustration, 1962

Gossiping Women (after Goya)

Goya with Detail

| Work

Composition with Goya #3 1963

Date:	1963
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	30 x 25
Size cm:	76.2 x 63.5
Signature:	Signed on the reverse

Location:	Estate of George Deem

| Image Notes

Reference
Goya, Girl in a Swing

| Artist's Notes

In 1960 I was painting calligraphic images of cursive script. The "writing" was not readable. My paintings were abstract images of paragraphs. In time, I began adding images of paintings: generic still lifes and landscapes and figure paintings. It was my intention that the image would be immediately recognized as an image of a painting so I chose familiar paintings for quotation: Millet's The Man with a Hoe, English and Dutch portraits, Chardin still lifes, Constable landscapes. My painting created an image of an illustration with a paragraph of associated text: "Composition with Illustration."
By the mid-Sixties I was making paintings of paintings, paintings that, instead of writing, had paintings by earlier artists as their subject. I sometimes repeated the image of the same quoted painting on one canvas, sometimes juxtaposed images from two or more different quoted paintings Positioning the image of the quoted painting on a one-color ground I provided a self-defining border for the composition.

George Deem
1993

| Exhibitions

Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco

Exhibition date:	January 1964
Works Shown:	Composition with Goya #3 1963

Merida Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

Exhibition date:	September 14 - October 5, 1968
Works Shown:	A List of Portraits A Public Painting After Corot Composition with Fragonard Composition with Goya #3 1963 Composition with Goya #4 Composition with Millet Edward Filmer and David Hume Everybody in the Sun Homage to Guardi Painting with Detail Picture of a Landscape Portrait with Landscape Six Paragraphs (Corot) Three By Chardin What a Beautiful Day

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Exhibition date:	October 1 - 19, 1963
Works Shown:	Composition with Goya #3 1963