Image pending
Oil and enamel with carpet on composition board · 1990
SW
Soldiers with Tank
1990 · Oil and enamel with carpet on composition board
Overall: 15 1/8 × 47 3/4 in. (38.4 × 121.3 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
Purvis Young
American, 1943–2010
WA-00003387
PaintingOutsider Art
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
5
Works in Collection
22
Assets Indexed
19
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Influence Graph
Authority Records (1)
Field Verification (7 fields)
5 cross-verified · 2 single-source
- Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge+1· 92%✓
- Death yearWikidata + Duplicate Merge+1· 92%✓
- Primary mediumWikidata + Duplicate Merge+1· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%✓
- BiographyWikipedia + Duplicate Merge+1· 88%✓
- LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
- DeceasedUnknown· 20%
Source Registry (1)
- Anton-KernTier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%
Research
Ask about Purvis Young
Ask a plain question — movements, influence, education, exhibitions, holdings, peers. Every answer carries its provenance.
About
Why this artist matters now
Purvis Young (1943, 2010) was an American self-taught painter of Bahamian descent whose densely layered works on found materials, including cardboard, wood, and discarded doors, document the streets, struggles, and spiritual life of Miami's Overtown neighborhood. Working prolifically across decades, he built a visual record of urban poverty, Black American experience, and human resilience without institutional training or commercial intent. His work entered the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. In 2018 he was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
Source: Anton Kern · Trust score: 60% · Updated 3mo ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Outsider Art
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (5)
Artwork sources (2)
5 published of 5 catalogued · 0 with image
- Whitney3 published
- The Met2 published
Record
Images
16 assets
View all 16 media items →
Relationships
4Influence1
Movements1
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan, United States
In collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
Network
Related Artists
Record
Exhibitions and timeline
No exhibitions or timeline entries yet