Purvis Young

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Purvis Young
1943-2010
Untitled (figures)
1980s
Acrylic(?) on manila folders, mounted on paper (recto and verso).
22 x 13 1/2 inches (55.9 x 34.3 cm)
Gift of Daniel Aubry.
2017.390
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Donor # 8A/B.
Young worked in a wide range of media, from collages, drawings, and paintings to large-scale assemblages and murals, often executed on found materials. He frequently drew on printed forms and found letters, pasting his works onto the pages of books. This double-sided collage may once have been part of such a book. Inspired by life in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami, his imagery expresses the struggles and triumphs of his neighbors through groups of figures reaching toward the sky. Young's vivid and expressionistic style was influenced by artists like Rembrandt, El Greco, and Van Gogh, whose paintings he encountered in art books.

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Daniel Aubry.
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