Hirschl & Adler Modern presents Self-Taught Artists at the Crossroads of Fact and Fiction, an exhibition featuring works by a distinguished group of self-taught artists, including Bill Traylor, James ...

Purvis Young was a self-taught African-American artist known for his expressive collages and paintings. Made on found objects, including scrap metal, book pages, and discarded envelops, his richly ...

Pan American Art Projects gallery is showing “Purvis Young: A Vision of Miami’s Cultural Identity,” an exhibition that pays ...

(The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016, also has a Purvis Young painting. Historical materials related to him are kept in the ...

the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among many other places. Image Purvis Young in 2003 with one of his murals in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He never attended high ...

Self-taught artist Purvis Young (1943–2010) is among those visionaries who made art of his own inspiration. Young’s expressionist works, painted on discarded doors, books, and cardboard ...

Please make a contribution today and help us reach our goal. Self-taught Overtown artist Purvis Young used little more than found objects and paint to craft his works, renowned for their rare ...

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And then he took Young to a doctor. Purvis Young, 67, died this morning of a heart attack at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Perhaps the most famous South Florida artist, Young had only left Miami ...

“Freedom Horse (undated), mixed media on wood. (1920x2225, AR: 0.8629213483146068) Pan American Art Projects gallery is showing “Purvis Young: A Vision of Miami’s Cultural Identity,” an ...

24 x 38.75 x 0.5 in. (60.96 x 98.42 x 1.27 cm.) Frame: 28.5 x 43 x 2 in. (72.39 x 109.22 x 5.08 cm.) Purvis Young was an American artist known for his expressive collages and paintings made on found ...