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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
WES HEMPEL (b. 1953)
American Rudder. Oil on canvas, 1999. Signed, Hempel, lower right, and dated, 1999, lower left. 1828x1321 mm; 72x52 inches.
Provenance: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Collection, New York.
Wes Hempel was born in El Monte California to a Christian fundamentalist family. He attended Life Bible College for three and a half years before following a path of his own choosing, against the wishes of his family, and moved to Los Angeles. He re-entered school as a freshman at California State University at Northbridge where he earned a Bachelor of arts degree. He would continue on to receive a masters degree from Colorado University.
