Hoosier School (Study)
| Date: | 1987
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| Medium: | Pen and ink and watercolor on paper |
| Size inches: | Image 14 x 21. Paper 19 3/4 x 27 |
| Size cm: | Image 35.6 x 53.3. Paper 50.2 x 68.6
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| Signature: | Signed and dated lower right. |
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| Location: | Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Evansville, Indiana |
Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Evansville, Indiana. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2014. Accession Number 2014.002.0002
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, Note on the work, New York, August 1998).
Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Eckert Fine Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana
