George Deem

Vermeer's Lady Seated at a Virginal, the Lady Removed

Date:	1999
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	20 x 18
Size cm:	50.8 x 45.7
Signature:	Signed and dated lower right and inscribed on the reverse
Location:	Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2014. Accession Number 2014.02

Reference
Vermeer, A Lady Seated at a Virginal, c. 1673-75. National Gallery, London.

Deem often leaves a portion of his painting incomplete, as in Vermeer's Lady Seated at a Virginal, Lady Removed, where the upper right corner is unfinished. Such a denial of illusionism is appropriate to what are, in essence, meditations on Vermeer. Deem's brushwork is also looser, a little more abstract as befits a state one step removed from the original, and, on occasion, he leaves ridges of paint around the edges as evidence of the hand (something Vermeer never would have done)...I think Deem's most successful paintings are those entirely without people. The scenes evoke the sensation of deja vu, yet there is still the shock of the unexpected. The emptiness of the rooms creates a contemporary sense of alienation -- Vermeer meets Edward Hopper. (Reagan Upshaw, "George Deem at Nancy Hoffman," Art in America, July 2000).

 

Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada

Exhibition date:

September 21 - November 4, 2001

Works Shown:

Art Deco School Ashcan School Bauhaus School Del Sarto, Canaletto, Titian Edward and Jo Hopper:Excursion into Philosophy The Fauve School Figure in a Landscape Fragonard at the Frick (Study 1) Frick Museum Study 1 Hudson River School 1995 La Tour Vermeer Manet Box Study Opened Cube Matisse School of Dance Occidental Rug Painting Perspective Saturday Afternoon, December 2, 1995 School of Arshile Gorky School of Modigliani 2 School of Piero Della Francesca School of Stuart Davis Seven Vermeer Corners The Studio of Jacques-Louis David Tea Time Vermeer's Lady Seated at a Virginal, the Lady Removed Vermeer's Music Lesson with the Figures Removed

Musee d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg

Exhibition date:	June 27 - October 5, 2003
Institution:	Les Musees de Strasbourg
Catalog:
Works Shown:	An American Vermeer Vermeer's Lady Seated at a Virginal, the Lady Removed

Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

Exhibition date:

January 15 - February 16, 2000

Works Shown:

Seven Vermeer Corners Two Vermeer Chairs Vermeer's Concert with Two Figures Removed Vermeer's Concert with Two Figures Removed (Number 2) Vermeer's Concert with Two Figures Removed (Study) Vermeer's Easel Vermeer's Easel (Study) Vermeer's Lady Seated at a Virginal, the Lady Removed Vermeer's Lady Standing at a Virginal, Lady Removed Vermeer's Music Lesson with the Figures Removed Vermeer's Woman in Blue Removed