Honoring the Life and Works of Artist Purvis Young.
Our Mission
The Purvis Young Foundation is a Florida nonprofit organization founded in January 2021. It is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and archiving the works of this great American master artist and to preserve Purvis Young’s artistic legacy, to further public knowledge and appreciation of the visual arts and to provide programs to assist the education and development of the local, national and international art communities.
The foundation’s projects include collaborating on exhibitions and publications, organizing and maintaining the Purvis Young archives, examining works attributed to Purvis Young and the cataloging and authentication of the artist’s works.
“I paint from reality. I paint the problems of the world. I’m an artist, and I’d love to solve the problems of the world.”
— Purvis Young
“I paint angels coming to earth to help people.”
— Purvis Young
Contact Us
Email
info@purvisyoungfoundation.org
Phone
(305) 510-1621