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MAVIS PUSEY Carome.
Oil on canvas, circa 1970. 1478x1223 mm; 58x48 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Born in Jamaica, in 1928, Pusey immigrated to New York at the age of 18 to study at the Art Students League. Pusey also worked at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop and with the painter Will Barnet. She was the recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation award and a Tiffany Foundation grant.
Pusey's paintings and prints were included in major exhibitions, including the 1966 UCLA Art Galleries The Negro in American Art and the 1971 Whitney Museum of American Art's Contemporary Black Artists in America. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Public Library.
