Artist Spotlight: Wes Hempel

Sometimes-wicked appropriations from such disparate sources as neoclassical history painting and the Dutch golden age root Hempel's art in a revised history.

BY Christopher Harrity

October 08 2011 4:00 AM ET

WES HEMPEL SPELL, 2003 X560 | ADVOCATE.COM

Hempel: Another take on a Maxfield Parrish fairy tale, this time the 1912 Hearst Magazine cover illustration of the Snow White story. I’ve replaced the sleeping maiden with our model Toby.

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