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, ...

With shades on his face and paint on his fingers, Purvis Young hunches over ... said Addonis Parker, a Liberty City artist who has restored two other Young murals. “That’s the message he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...