Description:

Purvis Young (FL, 1943 - 2010), Two Works, Figures Painted on Receipts, comprising an abstract figure painted on a blue equipment receipt signed upper edge (8 3/8 in. x 6 7/8 in.) and another work of abstract figures painted on a yellow warehouse receipt (8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.), both floating in blue mats and framed.

Purvis Young was a self-taught African-American artist known for his expressive collages and paintings. Made on found objects, including scrap metal, book pages, and discarded envelops. He did not receive any formal artistic training and it was during his incarceration at the Raiford State Penitentiary from 1961–1961 as a teenager, that he began drawing prolifically. Years later, Young’s artwork attracted the attention of Bernard Davis, the owner of the Miami Art Museum. Davis brought the artist’s work into the public eye, and by the 1970s, tourists and collectors regularly visited Young in Goodbread Alley where he lived and worked. Today, Young's works are held in the collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the American Folk Art Museum in New York, and the de Young Museum of Art in San Francisco, among others. (Artnet.com)

Measurements: Height: of frames 26 in. x Width: 22 in.

Condition:

Good condition, light wear and some creasing to edges of paper, not viewed out of frames.