Lady of Spain (Portrait of Gail Rutherford)

Date:	1972
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	c. 12 x 8
Size cm:	30 x 20
Signature:	Signed and dated upper right and inscribed on the reverse
Location:	New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Accession Number: 2011.68

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut.Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2011. Accession Number 2011-68.

Reference
Jacob van Es (c.1596-1666), Still Life. Reference to Jacob van Es inscribed by George Deem on the reverse of the canvas.

Lady of Spain. (Gail Rutherford) April 1972


Lady of Spain. I met Gail Rutherford in Spain. She showed me what Spanish black shadow painting is, and she fed me black olives. Now Gail Rutherford lives and paints in Toronto and still feeds me black Spanish olives. (George Deem, June 1, 1978. Note written for an exhibition of paintings by George Deem at the Merida Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, June 12 - July 8, 1978).

Note. Ambika Gail Rutherford in 2011 lives in Prince Edward Island. (Ronald Vance, 29 June 2011).

Sneed Gallery, Rockford, Illinois

Exhibition date:	1981
Works Shown:	Artist in His Studio, The (diptych) Bingham Ceiling Caravaggio Saint Matthew, The Easel Painting, Verspronck George Washington and His Portrait Girl Before a Mirror (Picasso/Vermeer) Lady of Spain (Portrait of Gail Rutherford) Woman in Green with Vermeer's Lacemaker

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

Exhibition date:	April 6 - July 8, 2012
Institution:	New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Catalog:
Works Shown:	Lady of Spain (Portrait of Gail Rutherford) Vaslav Nijinsky and Benny Andrews

Merida Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

Exhibition date:	June 12 - July 8, 1978
Works Shown:	Autoportrait Collected Nudes Composition in Black and Yellow (The Visitation) Composition in Red and Black (Rubens Vermeer) George Washington and His Portrait George Washington in White Face The Immaculate Conception Lady of Spain (Portrait of Gail Rutherford) May Wilson is Bald Quotations Woman with Still Life