RICHARD DEMPSEY (1909 - 1987) Cityscape.

RICHARD DEMPSEY (1909 - 1987)

Cityscape.

Oil on board, 1955. 266x345 mm; 10x13 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.Provenance: the Evans-Tibbs collection, Washington, DC: private collection, Callfornia.Exhibited: African American Artists, 1880 - 1987, Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, SITES (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service) , Washington, DC, with the label on the frame back.In 1951, Richard Dempsey was associated with the Washington, DC school with his inclusion in the first Annual Exhibition of the Loïs Mailou Jones & Céline Tabary Studio Group. Alongside Delilah Pierce and Alma Thomas, Dempsey exhibited his paintings at the Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington, DC through the 1950s.