Self-taught Artist show at the American Folk Art Museum
“The work of 20th-century self-taught artists is often assumed to be solely representational in subject matter with an emphasis on storytelling and memory. Other assumptions are that the artists work in isolation, that they live in rural areas, and they are not connected to community or culture. As the field of self-taught artists and their work matures and expands, however, scholarship is beginning to dispute these stereotypes. Approaching Abstraction on view from October 6, 2009
read onPurvis Young work on display at American Art and Craft Collective
“Purvis used the debris of Overtown, old cribs and pieces of wood, to create a body of work that tells a specific story, a somber story, that is nonetheless part of the American experience. What is more disturbing to me is the thought that without artists like Purvis Young, this story would not be heard.
An American Art and Craft Collective will be on display until January 15, 2010 and is a marriage about
read onPurvis Young in Vogue
“A fashion spread being shot in Miami isn’t exactly big news, but there’s a pictorial in the latest American Vogue (with Cameron Diaz on the cover) that made us do a double take.
For one, it stars actor Morgan Freeman –not exactly a fashion mag regular– and Dutch model Lara Stone, a gap toothed vixen normally found in edgier fare. An unexpected
read onRubell Family Grants Purvis Young Collection to Morehouse College
By Catherine Fox The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 08/14/08 Purvis Young, one of the distinguished elders of self-taught art, will soon be a Morehouse man. The Miami-based Rubell Family Collection has given the college 109 of Young’s paintings. Worth an estimated $1 million, the gift will be hung in its entirety on the second floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. It is the largest single gift of art Morehouse has received, and
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