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 ...

the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami is launching a new exhibition: "Under the Bridge, Beyond the Beach and Above the Muck: The Art of Purvis Young." MOCA will kick off the display ...

It has been said and often that Purvis Young is to Overtown ... the Picasso of the ghetto,” Young said in an interview for a ...

Adorning the walls of the Historic Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum in Overtown is a series of artworks, each ...

(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 ...

"You can still purchase a good Purvis piece for $200 dollars." Purvis Young. Miami Art Museum, 101 W. Flagler St., Miami. The exhibition runs until November 7. The museum is open 10 a.m. till 5 p ...

Purvis Young believed there are angels among us. For the first time, Orlando Museum of Art is hosting a major exhibition by the self-taught Florida artist, with the title “Purvis Young and His ...

but art that was once ubiquitous in the community is now scarce. Larry Clemons, owner of the Purvis Young museum in Fort Lauderdale, said he and former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz tried to bring the ...

Miami’s Purvis Young captured the heart of his Overtown neighborhood through his artwork. Now, his works are coming home for good. The Bass of Museum of Art will announce Friday that it is ...

For four decades, self-taught artist Purvis Young ... art hangs in museums across the country. Anderson is the director and curator of the Contemporary Center at the American Folk Art Museum ...

where Clemons was transforming a building into Gallery 721 -- an art bungalow that would soon house the Purvis Young Museum -- and Young painted. "He had a green recliner that he would put at 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 ...