Alabama. 1928 - 2016
Outsider art, rural genre and landscape painting, sculpture
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1943 Liberty City, Florida - 2010 Miami, Florida. Known for: Mod naive urban views, installation.
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time... Read full biography
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It... Read full biography
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before... Read full biography
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before it. Young lives and works in Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it. He is "of the community, but is also, now, of the larger art world as well." He has researched art history avidly and has seen what... Read full biography
The work of the urban black vernacular artist, Purvis Young, has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter-evoking Picasso in its riders, its elegant horses, its nudes. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard-American urban Black culture. It is to "outsider art" what be bop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before it. Young lives and works in Overtown, a neighborhood in Miami cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it. He is "of the community, but is also, now, of the larger art world as well." He has researched art history avidly and has seen what other artists have done, spending years in the libraries that have supported his work. He has chosen... Read full biography
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People with Halos Above City, 1973
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Naive religious-words, folk art constructions
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Alabama. Born 1950
Sandstone sculpture, assemblage, figure painting
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
Alabama. 1920 - 2006
Naive figure, self portrait, animals-Outsider art
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South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
Virginia, Pennsylvania. 1889 - 1985
Folk art figure wood carvings
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
Kentucky. 1931 - 2012
Folk art
Georgia. Born 1934
Naive religious activities
Georgia. 1928 - 2005
Naive figure
United States, Germany. Born 1942
Abstract figure
Georgia. Born 1932
Memory paintings
Kentucky. 1895 - 1990
Folk art painting and found object sculpture
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
South Carolina, New York. 1911 - 1990
Naive figure-genre-outsider art
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Alabama. 1854 - 1947
Folk art painting
Georgia. 1908 - 1997
Pointillist folk art image painting, landscape, farmlife, animals, figures and portraits
California. 1898 - 1993
Naive genre-figure-animal painting
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
Ohio, Mississippi. 1892 - 1984
Folk art carvings, narrative, teacher, collaborative art
United States, Poland. 1913 - 1998
Painting with embellishments of precious gems and metals, pasted jewelry from the 50’s and 60’s.
North Carolina. 1892 - 1987
Abstract, naive crayon drawing, religious and mystical
Haiti. 1923 - 2012
Pencil thin figure drawing, decorative art and mural painting
Alabama, Louisiana. 1926 - 2014
Naive, folk art style painting, political, racial themes
Illinois, Alabama. 1901 - 1990
Naive style genre, animal and portrait painting, totemic sculpture
New York, California / France, Italy. 1928 - 2005
Happenings, assemblage, abstraction
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture