School of Canaletto 2

Date:	1987
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	50 x 36
Size cm:	127 x 91.4
Signature:	Signed and dated lower right
Location:	Private Collection, Kentfield, California

School of Canaletto 1 and School of Canaletto 2 were both painted in 1987. In the first painting I added my school desks in front of Canaletto's 1723 Piazza San Marco, National Gallery, London. So deep and vast is Canaletto's space that my addition of the school desks at the bottom of my painting obliged me to eliminate Canaletto's great arch at the top of the painting. In School of Canaletto 2 I decided that this time I would make a painting in which my activity would result in the least possible alteration of the painting I would quote from. I chose Canaletto's 1765 painting Capriccio, Academia, Venice. Canaletto's Capriccio is an imaginary composition made up of architectural features to which I added merely one more imaginary element, the school desks under the colonnade that opens onto the courtyard. I have made a minimal change in Canaletto's painting to turn his Capriccio into my School of Canaletto. Even my canvas is the same size as his. (George Deem, A Note by the artist on his painting School of Canaletto 2, March 25, 1996)

University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon

Exhibition date:	October 4 - December 15, 1996
Institution:	University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Works Shown:	Del Sarto, Canaletto, Titian George Washington Vermeer School of Canaletto 2 School of Chardin Vermeer's Map

Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana

Exhibition date:	May 12 - July 11 1993
Institution:	Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana
Works Shown:	Ashcan School Barbizon School, The Bauhaus School The Fauve School Hoosier School Hudson River School 1985 L'Ecole de Paris L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts New York School, The School of Athens School of Balthus School of Bingham School of Canaletto 1 School of Canaletto 2 School of Caravaggio School of Chardin School of de Chirico School of Degas School of Eakins School of Georges de La Tour School of Hopper School of Ingres School of Juan Gris School of Mantegna School of Matisse 1 School of Matisse 2 School of Modigliani School of Piero Della Francesca School of Rembrandt School of Sargent School of Stuart Davis School of Thought School of Velazquez School of Vermeer School of Veronese School of Watteau School of Winslow Homer Schoolroom 1979

The Branson School, Ross, California

Exhibition date:	January 23-27,1995
Institution:	The Branson School, Ross, California
Works Shown:	Art Deco School Ashcan School The Fauve School School of Canaletto 2 School of Modigliani 2 School of Piero Della Francesca School of Renoir (Study) School of Stuart Davis School of Veronese