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

Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from ... painted by members of the Black Arts Movement. In the early 1970s he created a mural of his own, plastering a wall along a deserted stretch ...

while the Rauschenbergian tableaux of Purvis Young unsentimentally showcase the tough Overtown neighborhood which produced him. A series of psychedelically colorful, categorization-defying ...

For four decades, self-taught artist Purvis Young, who died April 20 at 67 ... the activities of contemporary art. Inspired by the Black Arts Movement’s Wall of Respect in Chicago, he had ...

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 ...

"Purvis Young was a modern-day griot in terms of how he documented the Black experience through his eyes and what he saw in his environment," says Timothy A. Barber, executive director of the ...