Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from ... of escape and methods of connection between the inner city and the outer world. Indeed, there is a storytelling aspect to his paintings ...

"What you're doing is happening in every city in this country, and you chronicling this has ramifications nationwide." And then he took Young to a doctor. Purvis Young, 67, died this morning of a ...

Young's works have helped the city rise to a new level of artistic influence, says M'Bow. "Purvis has moved beyond racial categorizing to embody the aesthetic spirit of Miami," he explains.

The late Purvis Young, a native of Miami’s Overtown neighbourhood and arguably the city’s most beloved artist, developed a visual lexicon comprised of his own unique iconography. Horses ...

RLA Conservation, a firm that specializes in preserving artwork in Miami’s climate, worked for months to preserve a mural by Purvis Young ... Born in Liberty City in 1943, Young was a self ...

I t has been said and often that Purvis Young is to Overtown what Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were to Lower ...

Purvis Young was an American artist known for his expressive ... graphically exemplifies this type of recurring theme. Born in 1943 in Liberty City, Florida, Young learned to draw from his uncle at a ...