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| WorkLa Tour Vermeer
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2013.Accession Number 2013.10.4 | Image Notes
Signed and dated lower left and inscribed on the reverse. Original title: Patricia Skinner Vermeer, retitled by the artist. Details of image available in B&W photo prints. Reference Vermeer, The Music Lesson, c. 1662-64 and Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid, c. 1670-72. Georges de La Tour, Mary Magdalene with Oil-lamp, c. 1635 | Artist's Notes
That was a fine perceptive review of my pictures at the Indianapolis Museum. ... As for what you did not enjoy, you are not alone in disliking Patricia Skinner Vermeer. That is a much disliked painting. There was even a time when it seemed the Indianapolis Museum was going to refuse to include the picture in the exhibition they disliked it so much. I just came across a poem that links up with what you wrote about the picture's being "sexy" (That really astonished me when I read it). I see that green is a color that disturbs and excites for being as the poet says "an unclassic shade" (I wonder how the Greek tongue was afraid of it!). Perhaps too I should say that green bothers and excites people who live in or come from Southern Indiana, as I notice the lady lives in Evansville. I hope she got to see Patricia Skinner Vermeer, and Green Vermeer. Thank you, Sarah Lansdell, for once again writing so well of my work, I am glad that it continues to give you pleasure. (George Deem, letter to Sarah Lansdell, March 31, 1975)
| ExhibitionsLas Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Sneed-Hillman Gallery, Rockford, Illinois Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut Merida Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
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| WorkLa Tour Vermeer
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2013.Accession Number 2013.10.4 | Image Notes| Artist's Notes| Exhibitions |
