Untitled
1993
Purvis Young
Artist, American, 1943 - 2010
Artwork overview
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Medium
artist’s book with paint, crayon, ballpoint pen, and marker on found papers and boards pasted to coloring book
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Credit Line
Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
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Dimensions
closed (irregular): 67.31 × 45.72 × 3.81 cm (26 1/2 × 18 × 1 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
2020.28.31
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist, Miami, Florida; 1987 William S. Arnett, Atlanta, Georgia; 2012 gift to the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia; 2020 purchased by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2022
Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022-2023.
Bibliography
2000
Arnett, Paul, and William Arnett. Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. 2 vols. Atlanta, 2000-2001: vol. 2, p. 404, pl. 237, repro.