Purvis Young
Untitled
1977
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Purvis Young
Untitled
1977
Physical Qualities
Ballpoint pen, porous-point pens (markers), and wax crayon on assorted found paper, collaged on and loosely interleaved in used Sunday School record book., 11 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (29.2 × 24.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation; and purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Object Number
2021.31
A worn Sunday School record book contains scribbly drawings of cityscapes and people gathering. Bright colors, religious motifs, and rhythmic figures recur throughout, either highlighting or obscuring the original content.
Arnett, William, Paul Arnett, Robert Hobbs, Theophus Smith, and Maulde Southwell Wahlman, “The Hidden Charms of the Deep South,” Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, vol. 1, edited by William Arnett and Paul Arnett, Tinwood Books and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, (2000): 104–5, plate 83.
Google Arts & Culture and Souls Grown Deep Foundation. “Purvis Young: By the Book,” https://artsandculture.google.com/story/purvis-young-by-the-book/HAXBZEj5wnjGkg.
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