- Born
- Died
- Purvis Young was born on February 2, 1943 in Miami, Florida, USA. He died on April 20, 2010 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- His art pieces can be found at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida; Bass Museum in Miami, Florida; the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington D.C.; the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia; the Smithsoniana American Art Museum in Washington D.C. and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- He is survived by his longtime partner, Eddie Mae Lovest; two sisters, Betty Rodriguez and Shirley Byrd; a brother, Irvin Byrd; four stepdaughters; Kenyatta, Kentranice, Taketha, and Elisa; and 13 step-grandchildren.
- He spent 2-3 years in a Florida prison for armed robbery.
- I don't like the luxury I see of a lot of these church people while the world is getting worser. When I say is the world is getting worser, guys pushing buggies, street people not having jobs here in Miami, drugs kill the young, and church people riding around in luxury cars.
- On his art: I didn't have nothing going for myself. That's the onliest thing I could mostly do. I was just looking through art books, looking at guys painting their feelings.
- It was mostly white people interested. Some people would say stuff, say I looked like Gauguin, all different artists they say I looked like. A lot of black people seen them, but they didn't say much to me about it. Some of them said I was mad, some cursed me out, some liked it, some of them admired me, some didn't. A friend of mine--he's passed away now--say to me: 'I look at your paintings but I don't see nothing. But every time I turn around you're in the newspaper.'
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