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MAVIS PUSEY
Carome
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Oil on canvas, circa 1970. 1478x1223 mm; 58x48 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Born in Jamaica, in 1928, Pusey immigrated to NewYork at the age of 18 to study at the
Art Students League. Pusey also worked at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop
and with the painterWill Barnet. She was the recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner
Foundation award and a Tiffany Foundation grant.
Pusey’s paintings and prints were included in major exhibitions, including the 1966 UCLA
Art Galleries “The Negro in American Art” and the 1971Whitney Museum of American
Art’s “Contemporary Black Artists in America.” Her work is in the collections of the
Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Opera and the NewYork Public Library.
[15,000/20,000]