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 ...

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.

PURVIS, Miss. (WDAM)—Thanks to a community garden beside Purvis City Hall, the city will have more builders, green thumbs, and greenery. The idea came from the Purvis Woman’s Club. The garden ...

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 ...

PURVIS, Miss. (WDAM) - A system-wide boil water notice has been issued for the City of Purvis. According to a post on the city’s Facebook page, the public works department repaired a 10-inch ...

Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926. Historian Carter G. Woodson, the founder of the Association for the Study Of African American Life and History (ASALH), selected the week ...

Rob Purvis, vice president of the New York Blood Center, told WCBS 880's Monica Miller the blood bank's supply is dwindling to a dangerously low level, especially platelets. "They only last five ...

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 ...

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

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 ...