A Painter's Note Book 1987
| Date: | 1987
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| Medium: | Altered note book with oil paint |
| Size inches: | 6 x 4 x 1 1/2 |
| Size cm: | 15.2 x 10.2 x 3.8
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| Signature: | Identifying name address telephone number on first page |
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| Location: | New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut |
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Accession Number 2013.54.7
The book is a note book with entries by the artist, and so named by George Deem, A Painter's Note Book, not A Painter's Day Book. His notes in this Notebook refer to his being in Budapest. George Deem's passport shows that he was in Budapest in 1987.
Dear Larry: if you ever scout books again, George Deem...keeps a lovely ongoing book in which he wipes the paint from his brushes. His book is as Jean Cocteau thought the choreography of Parade should be: "Leur demarche doit etre comme un accident organise qui dure." (William S. Wilson, letter to Larry Shopmaker, re. exhibition A Private Reading: The Book as Image and Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, September 13 - November 10, 2001.)
