Purvis Young’s Miami was a sweaty Miami. A sticky, stifling, urban Miami. No beaches. No sea breezes. No nightclub bottle service. His Miami was the Overtown neighborhood, one of the city’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Miami artist Purvis Young is shown in his art studio in this December 2006 file photo. Chuck Fadely MIAMI HERALD STAFF Throughout a troubled but prolific life, Miami’s Purvis Young captured the ...

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 ...

“Freedom Horse (undated), mixed media on wood. Pan American Art Projects gallery is showing “Purvis Young: A Vision of Miami’s Cultural Identity,” an exhibition that pays tribute to the ...