Hoosier School
| Date: | 1987
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| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Size inches: | 24 x 32 |
| Size cm: | 61 x 81.3
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| Signature: | Signed and dated lower center |
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| Location: | Private Collection, Evansville, Indiana |
The Indiana State Museum is preparing an exhibition of paintings for touring to schools in Indiana. The reproductions would be the actual size of the paintings. The organizers of the exhibition plan to include
Hoosier School. (George Deem, letter to Mrs Guthrie May, August 7, 1995)
NOTE to file. The painting was reproduced actual size and toured to Indiana schools with the exhibition. An example of the actual size reproduction is in the George Deem Archive at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut.
Study for Hoosier School is a preparatory work for the painting reproduced in Art School. The painting and the study quote a landscape by Indiana Brown County painter T. C. Steele.(George Deem, letter to Cyrus Deem, Jr., March 30, 1996).
A note by the artist on his Study for Hoosier School
Signed and dated lower right. Title "Study for Hoosier School" lower left.
In the summer of 1987 I was a visitor at Bennington College in Vermont where there was a summer school in session. Looking at The Hoosier Group: 5 American Painters, a book published by Henry and Jane Eckert, I had the idea of painting school desks in rows out of doors on a summer day. I made this watercolor quoting two paintings by T.C. Steele, his June Idyll, 1887 ,and his Summer Days at Vernon, 1892. Back in my studio in New York , I then made the oil painting Hoosier School, now in a private collection in Evansville. (George Deem, New York, August 1998).
Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana
