[1][5] Blurring the boundaries between painting, collage, printmaking and draftsmanship, Dupree delves wholeheartedly into the realm of complete abstraction.

[3][6] His works are held by private collectors including LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band[2] and Patti LaBelle.

The Shooting Stars used Dupree's sets when they won first place in 2008,[10] with the theme "India Land of the Tiger",[11] and 2009,[3] with "Mythic Knights, Defenders of the Realm".

[18] On December 27, 2012, the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (PRA) seized the deed to Dupree's studio under Pennsylvania's soon-to-expire Eminent Domain Code.

[18] The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas supported the PRA's attempt to condemn the property on November 13, 2013, and re-affirmed that decision on June 26, 2014.

[18]: 2  On December 11, 2014,[19] the Redevelopment Authority announced that it was ending condemnation proceedings, returning Dupree full right to his land and studio.

"[18]: 2 From 2011 to 2014; two American filmmakers, Tyrone Brown and Joe Sapienza II, merged their two documentaries on Dupree titled: Broken Dreams "The Man I Always Wanted to Be",[20] and released the feature film in November 2015 in Philadelphia.

[21] The documentary features Dupree's Art series, his music, lifestyle, his fight against Philadelphia with Eminent Domain, and interviews with Mantua residents and their views on the massive takeover of land by Penn & Drexel, the surrounding Universities.

The original ending of the documentary showed a bitter and darker cut of Dupree in the back of his studio among the trash and vacant lots followed by the credits.

Drexel University declined Sapienza's request for rights to footage that featured president John Fry talking about the Promised Zone and the future of Mantua, where James Dupree's studio currently resides, and declined two interview requests even though Sapienza[24] is an accredited alumni of Drexel University in the Film & Television program.