As galleries transfer programming online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve noted exhibitions worth checking out.
Tag: Purvis Young
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How the Legal System Left Artist Purvis Young’s Beneficiaries Empty-Handed
Young left nearly 2,000 works of art to his close friend and her family. An article in the Washington Post Magazine explains how, after Young’s death, a group of lawyers kept the works instead.
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Purvis Young’s Unbounded Histories
Young’s works tell the stories of individuals and communities, of dreams and disillusionment, and of the abysses between life, death, and eternity.
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History and Myth Emanate in the Art Made in the Sunshine State
Interlopers and transplants convey the decay and loveliness of a place in works from 1750 – 1969.