Untitled
Tenements
Street Memories
Present of Things to Come
Oil on canvas, 1968, 49x21 in.
Before and After
Mixed media on canvas 1982 44x62 in
Street Memories
Oil on canvas 1966 49x21 in
Legacy
Richard Dempsey
1909 - 1987
RICHARD DEMPSEY (1909 – 1987) is WPA trained, attended the California School of Arts & Crafts in the 1930s and created experimental figurative works in the 1950s; colorful, playful works inspired by many trips to the Caribbean; and utilitarian, abstract motifs in his later works. In 1941 he became the first African American to hold the draftsman position at the Federal Power Commission in Washington D.C.-