Purvis Young Art

Diptych of 2 original mixed media paintings on metal shelves. Each is hand signed on front by the artist. Each piece measures 36.25 x 15.5 in. Artw...

Original acrylic painting on paper ( the paper has been glued on a book page, very usual practice of the artist) The page is free and the book is not included The painting can be e...

Original acrylic painting on paper ( the paper has been glued on a book page, very usual practice of the artist) The page is free and the book is not included The painting can be e...

Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media painting on an aluminum tray. Size 26 x 17.75 x 1 inches. The artwork is in excellent condition and comes with a Certificat...

Original mixed media painting on canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Original mixed media on board with carpet/rug trim. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable of...

Collage of paintings on paper mounted on board. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers...

Original mixed media on wood. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media painting on wood. Wood size 51.25 x 24 inches. Frame size approx 53.5 x 26 inches. The artwork is in excellent condition a...

Original mixed media on wood. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media painting on wood. The artwork is in excellent condition and comes with a Certificate of Aut...

Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media painting on plastered canvas. Artwork size 25.25 x 25 inches. Frame size approx 30.75 x 30.25 inches. The artwork is in ex...

Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media painting on wood. The artwork is in excellent condition and comes with a Certificate of Aut...

Original mixed media on board. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media painting on wood. The artwork is in excellent condition and comes with a Certificate of Aut...

Original mixed media painting on wood. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included....

Original mixed media painting on wood. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be cons...

Original mixed media on wood. Hand signed on front by the artist. Frame size 37.25 x 28.25 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reas...

Original mixed media painting on board. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Custom framed as pictured. Frame size approx 32 x 48 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Cert...

"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban The painting measures 65 x 48 inches. We love that in the middle of ...

Collage of drawings and paintings on paper mounted on cardboard mounted on wood. Hand signed on a few of the mounted artworks by Purvis Young. Artwork is in excellent condition. Ce...

Purvis Young (1943-2010) Mixed media collage oil on poster board painting. Painted atop a voting advertisement sign. Signed in multiple places on piece "Young". Purvis Young (1943 – 2010) was an African American artist from the Overtown neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Young's work, often a blend of collage and painting, utilizes found objects and the experience of African Americans in the south. Purvis Young painted on scrap lumber, old doors, tax forms, street signs, cardboard and plywood that he scavenged from the streets and vacant lots of Overtown, the historically black neighborhood where he lived in Miami, Florida. Young gained recognition as a cult contemporary artist, with a collectors' following that included Jane Fonda, Damon Wayans, Jim Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and others. In 2006 a feature documentary titled Purvis of Overtown was produced about his life and work. His work is found in the collections of the American Folk Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the High Museum of Art, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and others. In 2018, he was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Purvis Young was born in Liberty City, a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, on February 2, 1943. As a young boy, his uncle introduced him to drawing, but Young lost interest quickly. He never attended high school. As a teenager, Young served three years (1961–64) in prison at North Florida's Raiford State Penitentiary for breaking and entering. While in prison he would regain his interest in art and began drawing and studying art books. When released, he began to produce thousands of small drawings, which he kept in shopping carts and later glued into discarded books and magazines that he found on the streets. He proceeded to move into the Overtown neighborhood of Miami. Young became attracted to a vacant alley called Goodbread Alley, which was named after the Jamaican bakeries that once occupied the street; he started living there in 1971. In the early 1970s, Young found inspiration in the mural movements of Chicago and Detroit, and decided to create a mural of inspiration Overtown. He had never painted before, but inspiration struck and he began to create paintings and nailing them to the boarded up storefronts that formed the alley. He painted on wood he found on the streets and occasionally paintings would "disappear" from the wall, but Young didn't mind. About two years after starting the mural, tourists started visiting the alley, mainly white tourists. Occasionally, Young sold paintings to visitors - tourists and collectors alike - right off the wall. The mural garnered media attention, including the attention of millionaire Bernard Davis, owner of the Miami Art Museum. Davis became a patron of Young, providing him with painting supplies as well. Davis died in 1973, leaving Young a local celebrity in Miami. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he explored other inspirations by watching historical documentaries about war, the Great Depression, commerce, and Native American conflicts and struggles in the United States. In 1999 the Rubell family, notable art collectors from New York, purchased the entire content of Young's studio, a collection of almost 3,000 pieces. In 2008 the Rubell's donated 108 works to Morehouse College In 2015, The Bass Museum of Art announced that it is donating almost 400 pieces of Young's art to the permanent collection in the Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida. The foundation is located in Lyric Theater in Overtown. Young found strong influence in Western art history and voraciously absorbed books from his nearby public library by Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin, El Greco, Daumier and Pablo Picasso. His work was vibrant and colorful, and was described as appearing like fingerpainting. Reoccurring themes in his work were angels, wild horses, and urban landscapes. Through his works, he expressed social and racial issues, and served as an outspoken activist about politics and bureaucracy. Two Purvis Young works appear on the 2018 David Byrne album "American Utopia." He is included in the collection of the Metro-Miami Dade Cultural Center. Since its 1970 start, the Permanent Art Collection has been recognized nationally as a fearless reflection of Miami’s diversity, and an invaluable chronicle of its artistic and social history. Their collection includes Elizabeth Catlett, Purvis Young and Emilio Sanchez. His work has since been included in numerous private collections and museums and was championed by the Joy Moos gallery, an influential gallery specializing in folk art, street art, self-taught visionary, outsider art and contemporary art (Galerie Moos, Montréal; Joy Moos Gallery, Miami. Joy was a recognized photographer, jewelry designer and interior decorator. She wrote a catalogue on Purvis Young and promoted Cuban artist Ramon Carulla. Her gallery also showed major contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg of Captiva Island and Edward Ruscha of Los Angeles. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2020 "Prophets and Angels": Purvis Young & Édouard Vuillard, Shin Gallery New York, NY 2019 "Personal Structures" Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy 2019 "Purvis Young" solo exhibition James Fuentes LLC, New York, NY 2018/2019 "Purvis Young" solo exhibition, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (for Art Basel) 2018 "History Refused to Die" Group Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 2017 "Revelations" Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA 2015 "50 for 50," LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA 2003 “African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” New York Historical Society 1997 “Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen,” DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA “Bearing Witness: African-American Vernacular Art of the South,” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY “Purvis Young-The Streets of Overtown: 1996 “Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South - The Arnett Collection,” Emory University 1994 “Purvis Young: Books and Works on Paper,” Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present,” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA “Purvis Young”, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France “Purvis Young: Art and Real Life,” Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany “Purvis Young Works of Paper (The Books),” Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY “Sam Doyle, William Hawkins...

This painting was acquired directly from the artist and held in a private collection since. Intended by the artist, are three holes which penetrate the surface as well as a scratch as can be seen in the 4th detail. Purvis Young Over a span of nearly five decades, the self- taught liberty city born artist Purvis young created thousands of paintings on found plywood, discarded cloth, cast-off furniture, and other urban debris, hanging them on the walls of a boarded up building along NW 14th street at 2nd Ave in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, a stretch known as Good Bread Alley. Young's images add up to an epic fantastical representation of the history of Overtown from the demolition of black owned...

This painting was acquired directly from the artist and has been held in a private collection since. Purvis Young Over a span of nearly five decades, the self- taught liberty city born artist, Purvis Young created thousands of paintings on found plywood, discarded cloth, cast-off furniture, and other urban debris, hanging them on the walls of a boarded up building along NW 14th street at 2nd Ave in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, a stretch known as Good Bread Alley. Young's images add up to an epic fantastical representation of the history of Overtown-- from the demolition of black owned...

This painting was acquired directly from the artist and held in a private collection since. Purvis Young Over a span of nearly five decades, the self- taught liberty city born artist Purvis young created thousands of paintings on found plywood, discarded cloth, cast-off furniture, and other urban debris, hanging them on the walls of a boarded up building along NW 14th street at 2nd Ave in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, a stretch known as Good Bread Alley. Young's images add up to an epic fantastical representation of the history of Overtown from the demolition of black owned...

This exceptional painting was acquired directly from the artist and held in a private collection since. Purvis Young Over a span of nearly five decades, the self- taught liberty city born artist Purvis young created thousands of paintings on found plywood, discarded cloth, cast-off furniture, and other urban debris, hanging them on the walls of a boarded up building along NW 14th street at 2nd Ave in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, a stretch known as Good Bread Alley. Young's images add up to an epic fantastical representation of the history of Overtown from the demolition of black owned...

Mixed Media House Paint on wood and laid fabric

Mixed Media house paint on cardboard

Mixed Media House Paint on Laid Fabric

Mixed Media house paint and carpet on plastic & cardboard

Mixed Media house paint on wood

Mixed Media house paint on cardboard and thin wood

Mixed Media house paint on panel

Mixed Media House Paint on wood and carpet on laid fabric

Mixed Media house paint on Maica

Mixed Media house paint on thin wood

Mixed Media House paint and carpet on board

Mixed Media house paint on cardboard and laid fabric

Mixed Media house paint on thin wood Purvis Young (1943 - 2010)

Painting and drawings glued into book by Purvis Young.

Trucks in the City by African American, Folk, Self-Taught, Florida, Outsider Art Purvis Young Urban Young was an American artist from Miami....

Acrylic on wood of an angel playing the piano by Purvis Young. From the artist to Vanity Novelty Garden, Tamara Hendershot To Rising Fawn Folk Art, The Jimmy Hedges Collection of O...

Acrylic on wood of six heads by Purvis Young. From the artist to Vanity Novelty Garden, Tamara Hendershot To Rising Fawn Folk Art, The Jimmy Hedges Collection of Outsider Art.

Painting glued into a sketchbook by Purvis Young.

Works on paper glued into a school textbook by Purvis Young.

Acrylic on wood painting of an angel over the city by Purvis Young. From the artist to Vanity Novelty Garden, Tamara Hendershot To Rising Fawn F...

Acrylic on canvas of nine heads by Purvis Young. From the artist to Vanity Novelty Garden, Tamara Hendershot To Rising Fawn Folk Art, The Jimmy Hedges Collection of Outsider Art.

Painting glued into a book of wallpaper samples by Purvis Young.

Yellow and red toned expressionist painting of a women. Painting has a boarder around the female making appear to be saint like. Painting is framed in a wooden frame with a black mat...

[This is a unique painting] Hand-signed "Young" upper right Custom frame dimensions: 51.5" high x 27.25" wide

Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Collage 1990, 1990 Mixed Media 59 x 46.50 in

Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Three Dudes, 1980’s Acrylic paint on board 48 x 21.75 x 1 in

Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Three Angels, circa 1980's Acrylic on board 24 x 48 x 0.75 in

Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Angel and Boats, circa 1980's Acrylic on board 49 x 48 x 1 in

Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Free Them, Now, 1980's Mixed Media house paint on wood 36 x 36 in

Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Collage 1994 - 1996, 1994-1996 Paint and wood construction on board 96 x 24 in

Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Hangin Out, 1993 Mixed Media 40.50 x 30 in

Purvis Young (1943 - 2010) Collage 1989, 1989 OIl enamels on wood with wood collage 86 x 31 in