Beginning a New Painting (Unfinished)
| Date: | 2008
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| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Size inches: | 50 1/2 x 47 1/2 |
| Size cm: | 128.3 x 120.7
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| Signature: | Unsigned unfinished work |
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| 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 No. 2013.54.18
George Deem began this new painting in 2008 and did not carry it beyond this preliminary stage.
Source material in folder labelled "Wall" in archives.
Reference
Vermeer, The Geographer, c. 1668-69. Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, c. 1664-65.
...You ask me about obstacles that a painter may have to overcome when starting a new work. For me, no obstacle ever gets in the way of my beginning a new painting. When I begin I am unaware of anything but the germ of a painting idea. My only concern is to see whether my medium, oil on canvas, can answer to that hinted-at concept. One of course is thinking as one works, the thinking that is painting...(George Deem, "A Letter to Dennis Cooper, 27 October 2007," Let George Do It, 2009)
