George Deem

Portrait on Demand

Date:	1992
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	16 x 20
Size cm:	40.6 x 50.8
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, 2013. Accession Number 2013.54.99

Reference
Photograph of the American artist Charles Schreyvogel painting a posed model on the roof of his apartment building in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1903.

Portrait on Demand, 1992. Is the gunman a model holding a pose as instructed by the artist? Or is the artist producing a portrait at gunpoint? (George Deem, How To Paint A Vermeer: A Painter's History of Art, Introduction: Robert Rosenblum. Thames & Hudson, New York, 2004).

Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana

Exhibition date:	April 17 - June 3, 2001
Catalog:
Works Shown:	Easel Painting The Landscape Painter The Landscape Painter (Study) Portrait on Demand Portrait on Demand (Study) (with pencil sketch of Hopper's "Nighthawks") Self-Portrait (1992) Self-Portrait (Study) 1992 Still Life with Egg Study (1992) Studio Corner Studio Interior with Easel Studio Visit Studio Visit (Study) Studio with One Light Source Western Studies 1992