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Untitled
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Tenements
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Street Memories
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Present of Things to Come
Oil on canvas, 1968, 49x21 in.
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Before and After
Mixed media on canvas 1982 44x62 in
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Street Memories
Oil on canvas 1966 49x21 in
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Legacy
Richard Dempsey
1909 - 1987
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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.-