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HEMPHILL HEMPHILL is a contemporary art advisory with a 33 year history as a contemporary gallery in Washington, DC.

The virtual exhibition, Willem de Looper: Evolution of an Artist is on view at hemphillartworks.com through June 27, 202...
05/29/2026

The virtual exhibition, Willem de Looper: Evolution of an Artist is on view at hemphillartworks.com through June 27, 2026.

Untitled, March 1976, 1976
acrylic on canvas board
12 x 16 inches, Framed Dimensions: 16 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches

COMING SOON!Wayson R. JonesThe Full Moon Is My GirlfriendJune 15 - July 25, 2026Wayson R. JonesOther Countries, 2026mixe...
05/26/2026

COMING SOON!

Wayson R. Jones
The Full Moon Is My Girlfriend

June 15 - July 25, 2026

Wayson R. Jones
Other Countries, 2026
mixed media on paper
40 x 32 inches

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WAYSON R. JONES: The Full Moon Is My Girlfriend is the third in an ongoing series of virtual exhibitions presented by Hemphill Artworks.

Kevin MacDonaldFor Lease, from "Girls Portion," prelude to "Mysteries of Silver Spring," 2005oil on paper52 x 52 inchesK...
05/25/2026

Kevin MacDonald
For Lease, from "Girls Portion," prelude to "Mysteries of Silver Spring," 2005
oil on paper
52 x 52 inches

Kevin MacDonald (1946 - 2006) was one of the most popular and acclaimed artists in the Washington, DC, area. In large-scale color pencil drawings, pastels, oil paintings, and fine art prints, MacDonald draws the viewer into contemplation and imaginative flight.

While often described as “nominally realist,” MacDonald’s output was stylistically varied. Early exhibitions showcased sophisticated compositions in the quietest color pencil, mostly unpeopled interiors. Over his 30+ year career, the artist also created oil paintings, large scale works on paper in many media, small edition lithographic and silkscreen prints, artist’s books, and installation and performance. In addition to interiors and landscape, MacDonald’s themes included mythology; locales such as Wheeling, Cuernavaca, and the DC suburbs; industrial and domestic architecture; and topics from literature and poetry.

Artwork by Kevin MacDonald is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and scores of public and private collections.

The virtual exhibition, Willem de Looper: Evolution of an Artist is on view at hemphillartworks.com through June 27, 202...
05/23/2026

The virtual exhibition, Willem de Looper: Evolution of an Artist is on view at hemphillartworks.com through June 27, 2026.

Willem de Looper
Untitled, 1974
acrylic on canvas board
17 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches

Born in Hague, Netherlands, Willem de Looper moved to Washington DC in 1950. After serving in the army, stationed in Germany, de Looper returned to Washington DC in 1959 and began working as a museum guard at the Phillips Collection, pursuing his career as an artist simultaneously. He advanced professionally to become the assistant curator at the Phillips in 1972, which led to his position as chief curator at the museum. In 1966, de Looper had his first solo exhibition at Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC—home to other great artists of the Washington Color School. He continued to show at Jefferson Place Gallery for nearly a decade and has been exhibited and collected by many established museums such as The National Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Please email info@hemphillartworks.com to inquire about James Phillips' 2013 painting, Freestyling on Kongo Life Cycle (...
05/22/2026

Please email [email protected] to inquire about James Phillips' 2013 painting, Freestyling on Kongo Life Cycle (Lights on Another Satellite).

James Phillips (b. 1945)
Freestyling on Kongo Life Cycle (Lights on Another Satellite), 2013
acrylic on board
30 x 29 inches

The virtual exhibition, Willem de Looper: Evolution of an Artist is on view through June 27, 2026.Untitled, December 197...
05/19/2026

The virtual exhibition, Willem de Looper: Evolution of an Artist is on view through June 27, 2026.

Untitled, December 1972, 1972
acrylic on canvas
66 x 66 inches

Willem de Looper: Evolution of an Artist traces the unfolding of the artist’s career. Willem de Looper is an important contributor to the color-field painting movement, locally known as the Washington Color School. The virtual presentation begins with two pre-Color School works, both approaching his mature style.

Looking back at Tanya Marcuse's Fallen series:Fallen Nº 45, 2013archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle, Photo Rag, 320 gsm...
05/16/2026

Looking back at Tanya Marcuse's Fallen series:

Fallen Nº 45, 2013
archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle, Photo Rag, 320 gsm
18 x 23 inch image on 24 x 29 sheet
Edition of 7

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HEMPHILL Artworks Spring NewsTanya Marcuse, Deer page spread, Clothbound with tipped-on image, 10 x 12 inchesDeerTanya M...
05/13/2026

HEMPHILL Artworks Spring News

Tanya Marcuse, Deer page spread, Clothbound with tipped-on image, 10 x 12 inches
Deer
Tanya Marcuse | Photo Book
Roman Nvmerals

Mark Kelner, 52 Stars, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 17 x 28 inches
Flag Daze
Mark Jenkins for the DisCerning Eye
May 6, 2026

Amy Schissel Installation, HEMPHILL Artworks, Washington, DC, May 10 - June 21, 2025.
Oolite Art Awards | Amy Schissel
The Ellies 2026

Colby Caldwell, garlands (02), 2024, archival pigment print, mounted to dibond and waxed, 55 1/4 x 72 inches, Edition 1/7
Forest for the Trees
Chautauqua Visual Arts
June 28 - August 9, 2026

Mark Kelner, 51 Books, 2026, site specific installation, 72 x 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Rip! Tear! Collage as Critique
DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
June 28 - August 9, 2026

Willem de Looper, Untitled, December 1972, 1972, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 66 inches
Willem de Looper: Evolution of an Artist
HEMPHILL Artworks
May 11 - June 27, 2026

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The virtual exhibition, WILLEM DE LOOPER: Evolution of an Artist opens today. It will remain on view through June 27, 20...
05/11/2026

The virtual exhibition, WILLEM DE LOOPER: Evolution of an Artist opens today. It will remain on view through June 27, 2026. Click the link in our bio to view the exhibition.

Untitled, June, 1981
acrylic on paper
50 x 38 inches

De Looper’s method of pouring paint, wet into wet and wet over dry from all sides, created waves and veils of color, offering a visual experience without a sense of gravity, limited only by the parameters of the stretched canvas. In Untitled, December1972, and Untitled, January 1976, rather than continue to submit to the arbitrary edge of the picture, the artist incorporates the idea of the top and bottom edges of the canvas by repeating horizontal bands, forcefully articulating the right and left sides of the painting. Continuing to work with acrylic stained into unprimed canvas, de Looper employs this banding motif through a variety of palettes, offering a range of related colors, expressing a symphony of emotional effects. In Untitled, June, 1981 and May,1980, the bands became plunging and pushing forces moving into the picture plane from the sides and the top and bottom. In his later phase de Looper breaks away from his north-south, left-right rectilinear strategy; he creates multiple edges and delineating lines, dynamically accenting shapes by infilled color-field spaces, focusing our eyes on details, intersections of form and color, and on incidents of pure visual drama.

Today is the last day to view the virtual exhibition, Mark Kelner: American Mosaic on hemphillartworks.com!State Slogans...
05/09/2026

Today is the last day to view the virtual exhibition, Mark Kelner: American Mosaic on hemphillartworks.com!

State Slogans, 2019
acrylic on cloth, five panels
70 x 80 1/2 inches

from left to right
Maryland is for Crabs!; Virginia is for Lovers!; Sweet Home Alabama!; Don’t Mess with Texas!; California Knows How to Party!

"These banners reinterpret familiar US state slogans in the visual language of Soviet propaganda—exclamation points and all. Cyrillic letters transliterate American phrases phonetically, producing text that reads in Russian as visual gibberish. Presenting these white-on-red pieces in a propaganda style historically used to justify repression and the deaths of tens of millions, the work underscores how seemingly innocuous messages are harnessed to sustain the power of tyrants."

~Mark Kelner

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