George Deem

George Washington Vermeer

Date:	1974
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	c. 31 1/2 x 27 1/2
Size cm:	80 x 70
Signature:	Signed and dated lower left
Location:	New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Gift of the Estate of George Deem. Accession Number 2013.54.53

Reference
Vermeer, The Music Lesson, c. 1662-64. The Royal Collection, London;
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, The Athenaeum Portrait, 1796.

Photolithograph of painting, 1979

In George Washington Vermeer, I quote two paintings: Vermeer's Music Lesson (1662-65) and Gilbert Stuart's unfinished portrait of George Washington (1796). I removed Vermeer's two standing figures of a woman and a man, and replaced Vermeer's mirror on the wall above the virginal with the portrait of George Washington. My black and brown and white palette alludes to the black-and-white image of Washington on the American dollar bill (the greenback is printed in green ink on the back only). Also, I like the analogy to the black-and-white crispness of historical documents displayed as objects for observation. How To Paint A Vermeer, A Painter's History of Art, Thames & Hudson, 2004. 86-87.

Yale University Jonathan Edwards College Master's House

Exhibition date:	January 16 - March 16, 2003
Institution:	Yale University
Works Shown:	The Art of Painting, diptych The Art of Painting (Study) Extended Vermeer Extended Vermeer: The Woman in Blue George Washington Vermeer Love Letter, The Love Letter, The (Study) Painting Perspective Red Chair, The Signature Vermeer Detail 2002 Vermeer's Chair Vermeer's Chandelier 1986 Vermeer's Easel Vermeer's Jug Vermeer's Music Lesson with the Figures Removed Vermeer's Window Woman in Blue Woman with a Water Pitcher

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Exhibition date:	December 8, 1974 - January 19, 1975
Institution:	Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Works Shown:	A Letter from Picasso An American Vermeer Blue Vermeer Composition in Red and Black (Rubens Vermeer) Deem Vermeer (Self-Portrait) George Washington in White Face George Washington Vermeer Green Vermeer Ingres Vermeer La Tour Vermeer Martha Milk Primary Vermeer Quartet (1973) Rita Vermeer Sienna Vermeer Three Women (Vermeer)

Ambassador's Residence, U.S. Embassy, The Hague, The Netherlands

Exhibition date:	2000
Institution:	Art in Embassies Program
Catalog:
Works Shown:	George Washington Vermeer

University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon

Exhibition date:	October 4 - December 15, 1996
Institution:	University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Works Shown:	Del Sarto, Canaletto, Titian George Washington Vermeer School of Canaletto 2 School of Chardin Vermeer's Map

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Exhibition date:	July 19 - September 24, 1978
Institution:	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Works Shown:	George Washington Vermeer

Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York

Exhibition date:	March 29 - April 21, 1984
Works Shown:	George Washington Vermeer Sienna Vermeer Vermeer Palette Vermeer Repeat (Two Extra Buttons)

Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York

Exhibition date:	February 1 - April 30, 1982
Institution:	Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York
Works Shown:	George Washington Vermeer

Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, Maryland

Exhibition date:

June 4 - 21, 1994

Works Shown:

Bingham Ceiling Composition in Red and Black (Rubens Vermeer) Courbet Palette Deem Palette Frame Frames Generic Dutch Portrait George Washington Shaving George Washington Vermeer Green Room, The (Study) Homage to William Merritt Chase (Study) Manet Palette Martha Matisse Corner Modigliani Palette Mondrian Vermeer Occidental Rug Quotations School of Courbet School of Courbet Study 1988 School of Watteau School of Watteau (Study #2) Self-Portrait 1987 Spanish School, The Vermeer Palette Yale

Sneed-Hillman Gallery, Rockford, Illinois

Exhibition date:

May 21 - June 30, 1976

Works Shown:

A Musical Portrait of Jean Rigg A Painting for Babies 1970/1980 Christopher Composition in Black and Yellow (The Visitation) Dance Company English Portraits Fall of Whistler's Mother, The French Harbor: Antibes George Washington Vermeer George Washington Vermeer (Study) La Tour Vermeer May Wilson in Europe Picture of a Landscape Sienna Vermeer Spanish Drawing (Velasquez) Three Women (Vermeer) Vermeer Landscape

On View Downtown Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana

Exhibition date:

November 10 - 28, 1986

Works Shown:

A Painting for Babies 1970/1980 Actual Size Vermeer's Lacemaker Call it Finished (Vermeer's Lacemaker) Composition in Red and Black (Rubens Vermeer) Deem Vermeer (Self-Portrait) Detail: Vermeer, Mayakovksky Frames George Washington Vermeer The Immaculate Conception Italian Vermeer (Caravaggio) Martha Mary O'Connell Mayakovsky in Delft Me and Mayakovsky Milk Mondrian in Vermeer's Studio Mondrian Vermeer Seventeen Simple as Mooing Summer Rental To Be Read Aloud (Mayakovsky) The Triumph of Art (Study) Triumph of Dance, The Two Saints, Two Masterpieces Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles Vermeer Girl in Red Hat 1966 Vermeer Palette Waiting Room Yale Yellow Vermeer Interior