George Deem

Western Studies 1992

Date:	1992
Medium:	Oil on paper
Size inches:	22 x 30
Size cm:	55.9 x 76.2
Signature:	Signed and dated lower right. Titled lower right
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.

Western Studies
I was involved with western images, western colors, the idea of the West. I realized that the man on the horse was too small so I painted the image again larger. Then I saw that the two figures looked good together and I could leave them as they were, having two figures side by side instead of one man on a horse. I had Winslow Homer's boys playing snap-the-whip on the right and I ran out of space and I saw that I could leave that area just as it was. These ideas came to be in the drawing as I worked on it. (George Deem, note written for use as wall text in the exhibition "George Deem and Peter Angelo Simon: Paintings and Photographs in Conversation" at the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana, 2001).

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