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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
RICHARD DEMPSEY (1909 - 1987) Hills of Haiti.
Oil on masonite, 1951. 533x914 mm; 21x36 inches. Signed and inscribed "Haiti" in oil, lower left.
Provenace: collection of the artist, Washington, DC; private Washington, DC collection.
Exhibited: Pan-American Union, Washington, DC, November - December, 1951, with the labels on the frame back.
While Richard Dempsey is known primarily as a Washington, DC abstract painter, he traveled extensively throughout his career. Dempsey traveled to Haiti and Jamaica in the 1950s and '60s. In 1951, he became associated with the Washington, DC school with his inclusion in the first Annual Exhibition of the Loïs Mailou Jones & Céline Tabary Studio Group, which also included Delilah Pierce and Alma Thomas. He was also included in the 10th Annual Exhibition of American Art in 1952 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where he won the purchase award.
