Original & Large Signed PURVIS YOUNG Folk Art Painting 37" X 31"

Description: Painting is in very good condition, but is dusty from storage over many years. I do not know the title of this work, but it looks like a boat with horses. It is signed YOUNG on one side of the panel as you can see. Purvis was very well known for going to construction sites and picking up materials to paint on. This particular piece has 2 x 4’s that were collected and a piece of plywood for the painting. I gathered some information about Purvis online and I’m including it in this description. The exact measurements of this work is 31 1/4 inches X 37 inches X 1 inch. In the early 1970s, Young found inspiration in the mural movements of Chicago and Detroit, and decided to create a mural of inspiration in Overtown. He had never painted before, but inspiration struck and he began to create paintings on discarded pieces of plywood, nailing them to the boarded up storefronts that formed the alley. Occasionally paintings would "disappear" from the wall, but Young didn't mind. About two years after starting the mural, tourists started visiting the alley. 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, asked to purchase some Purvis art. Purvis explained the works in the studio were like a family and he didn’t want to split them up. With that said the Rubell’s purchased the entire current content of Young's studio, a collection of almost 3,000 pieces. In 2008 the Rubell’s donated 108 of those works to Morehouse College. In January 2007, Purvis was selected as the Art Miami Fair's Director's Choice at the Miami Beach Convention Center and helped to establish a number of outdoor art fairs in South Florida that continue today.Young suffered from diabetes, and toward the latter years of his life, he had other health problems, undergoing a kidney transplant in 2007. He died on April 20, 2010 in Miami, from cardiac arrest and pulmonary edema. He is survived by his partner Eddie Mae Lovest; his two sisters Betty Rodriguez and Shirley Byrd, brother Irvin Byrd, four stepdaughters, and 13 step-children.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 the 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 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. He is credited with influencing the art movement terms Social Expressionism or Urban Expressionism.Public CollectionsMetropolitan Museum of Art. New York, New York. USAWhitney Museum of American Art. New York, New York. USALos Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, California. USASmithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, DC. USAAmerican Folk Art Museum. New York, New York. USAArt Brut Connaissance & Diffusion Fondation. Paris. FRANCEBass Museum of Art, Miami Beach. Miami, Florida. USABirmingham Museum of Art. Birmingham, Alabama. USABlock Museum of Art. Evanston, Illinois. USABoca Raton Museum of Art. Boca Raton, Florida. USACorcoran Gallery of Art. Washington D.C., USAFederal Reserve Board of Atlanta. Atlanta, Georgia. USA.Hampton University Museum. Hagerstown, Virginia. USA.High Museum of Art. Atlanta, Georgia. USA.Houston Museum of Fine Art. Houston, Texas. USAMiami Art Museum. Miami, Florida, USAMiami-Dade Public Library System. Miami, Florida. USAMinneapolis Institute of Art. Minneapolis, Minnesota. USAMorehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia. USAMotorola Corporation. Chicago, Illinois. USA.Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida. USANational Museum of African-American History and Culture. Washington, D.C. USANew Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, Louisiana. USA.Newark Museum. Newark, New Jersey. USAPhiladelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. USARockford Art Museum. Rockford, Illinois. USA.Rubell Family Collection. Miami, Florida. USA.Springfield Museum Of Art. Springfield, Ohio. USA.Studio Museum In Harlem. New York, New York. USA.Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, Virginia. USA.

Price: 1750 USD

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

End Time: 2024-12-04T18:30:52.000Z

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