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07/16/2009
Lea Adams-Ashby
Richard Dempsey
My mother (the late Ruth Martin Adams) and "Uncle" Richard were good friends as young people in the small but vibrant Oakland, CA African-American community of the 1920s-40s. They remained close when both moved to Washington DC, where his work was shown at the Franz Bader gallery until Bader's death. Mother and I visited Richard and his wife Vera at their home in Takoma Park, MD in the mid-80s. He was somewhat senile at the time, and I heard from my mother that soon thereafter he suddenly divorced Vera and married a much younger woman. I have an art deco carved wooden book cover Richard made for my mother when she was a student at Cal in the '30s, and a 1944 oil he sold to my parents when they were all living in Chicago during the W.P.A. days. He was a gifted artist, and is remembered in Takoma Park by a community center named for him.
12/28/2000
Janice Brown
Uncle Dempsey
My father and Uncle Dick were friends. They both worked for GSA in the late '50s and '60s. He was a member of various "Negro" art groups. One person mentioned by Daddy as a member or friend was Gordon Parks. There were others but I can not remember. My father is dead and mom has alzheimer's. I do know he had exhibitions at the Corcoran and Howard University's gallery. When my mother has her long memory moments I'll ask her about Uncle Dick. I do know he lived in California for a while before moving to Washington, DC.
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