PURVIS YOUNG - "HORSES" - FRAMED ORIGINAL PAINTING - 11"x26" - LOUIS ARMSTRONG

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Double your traffic. RIVERTOWN GALLERY PRESENTS...AN ORIGINAL VINTAGE PAINTING BY WELL LISTED ARTIST PURVIS YOUNG (1943 - 2010)" HORSES "PAINTED ON A LOUIS ARMSTRONG BOOK DUST JACKET - AUTOGRAPHED BY LOUIS ARMSTRONGUp for auction is a very nice original painting by well listed American artist Purvis Young. This piece depicts a large group of horses standing together, all facing in different directions. They are painted in varying shades of green, which transition from dark to light across the painting. There are also clouds surrounding the horses, framing the image quite nicely. A unique aspect of this painting is that it is done on the back of a Louis Armstrong book dust jacket that features his image and nickname "Satchmo". It also appears to be autographed by Armstrong in pen ink by his face, giving a bit more significance to this piece as a whole. As you will see in the photos, Purvis has created this piece with found materials, which include acrylic paint on a book dust jacket. It comes to you in a unique see through frame, which allows you to also view the Louis Armstrong book cover and signature. Guaranteed 100% authentic with an embossed certificate of authenticity from Rivertown Gallery! Please see below for more detailed information on the artist, size & condition of this superb painting...Signature - UnsignedAutographed On The Reverse - " BEST WISHES, FROM LOUIS ARMSTRONG "Measurements - 17 1/4" x 31 1/4" Framed ( 11 1/4" x 26 1/4" Painting Only )Medium - Found Materials, Acrylic House Paint On A Book Dust JacketCONDITIONPainting is in very good, as found condition. Purvis preferred to use repurposed materials to paint on, so the paper will show some wear which all adds to the character of the piece. This includes some light dirtiness and creases as shown, which are part of the artwork and intended by the artist. Paint is in very good shape, and is still quite vibrant. Overall a great piece of outsider art, from an accomplished artist, that looks great when displayed. Comes with a Rivertown Gallery Certificate of Authenticity!Black gallery frame included free of charge, with some wear including some scratches as shown in photo #7, sold as isPlease make sure to ask any questions you may have, and see all of the detailed photo's before bidding. Thanks!Please Feel Free To Send In Your Best OffersPlease see my other auctions for more great artwork, antiques & collectible!GENERAL & COMBINED SHIPPING INFO.- Rivertown Gallery will gladly offer you a combined shipping rate for all multiple item orders that can be shipped together. If you plan on buying multiple items, please send us a message so we know to hold off on sending an invoice. Items can be combined for up to 14 days, and payment will be required once you are done shopping with a discounted shipping rate. If you have any questions regarding specific shipping charges, please feel free to send us an eBay message. Combined shipping is intended for U.S.A buyers only...Many packages sent by Rivertown Gallery will require an indirect signature for delivery. This is done to prevent fraud on both sides. If you have any questions regarding this policy, or need to arrange alternate shipping, please contact us through eBay and we can work it out.Please check photos carefully as they are considered part of descriptionRivertown Gallery Guarantees the Authenticity of the work and provides a Certificate of AuthenticityPlease don't hesitate to contact me with any questionsPurvis Young is a storyteller. Considering his obsession for books and his insatiable appetite for knowledge about art, it is not surprising that his painting and his books of paintings appear to serve the purpose of books. They all contain, preserve, and document knowledge of real life situations. Whether in bound form or painted on found materials, Young's images always tell a story. Like his African-American ancestors who maintained the traditions and values of their people through storytelling, he continues to record the struggles, the hopes, and the joys of his world. Young's work has roots in the dreamy fields of high art subject matter--horses, nudes, etc. At the same time it is filled with the energy and syncretism of the world's vanguard American urban Black culture. It is to outsider art what bebop is to the blues. The subject matter rides on a thick layer of color, attention, choice, and free-swinging composition that refers to a thousand years of composition before it. This work is anything but naïve.Young lives and works in Overtown, an inner city Miami neighborhood cut off by the highway overpasses that loom over it. He's of the community, but also, now, of the larger art world as well. He has researched art history avidly and seen what other artists have done, spending years in the libraries that have supported his work. He has chosen his imagery out of Overtown and his own life, and out of the resonances of the past as well.Impulsive, vivid, created with a quick, sure, intense touch, Purvis Young's paintings have the spontaneity, the emotional honesty, the immediacy, the dramatic directness and idiosyncrasy we have come to expect from folk art. Their painterly handling conveys a certain joie de vivre, even when it is streaked with black morbidity. I am thinking of Dance (ca. 1977), with its mingling of forceful, twisting drippings, ruthlessly black, and more subdued yellow marks, also painterly but fewer in number, all displayed on a rough and ready Mylar ground, a kind of crude dance floor for the excited paint. It is an abstract expressionist painting in all but name, however much the elongated black gestures can be read as dancing African-Americans. One can feel the beat in the paint, sense the ecstatic movement of the dancers, read their energy as emotional expression.BiographyBorn: February 4, 1943, Liberty City, Miami, FLDied: April 21, 2010 Overtown, Miami, FLSELECTED EXHIBITIONS2010 "Purvis Young + Grown and Sewn", NY, NY2009 "Highlights from the Permanent Collection", Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL"Same Sweet Dream", Dieu Donné, NY NY2008 "The Figure Past and Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection", Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL"30 Americans", Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FLMorehouse College Permanent Installation, Atlanta, GA"Protest: Purvis Young", GalleryBar, New York, NY"Hexagone (a hex is gone)", MAS-Miami Art Space, Miami, FL2007 "Painted Protests", Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL"Mixed Signals", Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY"Self Taught: Seven African American Vernacular Artists", Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Costal Carolina University, Conway, SC"Compelling Visions: Florida Collects Folk Art", Museum of Fine Arts, Sarasota, FL2006 "Purvis Young: Paintings from the Street," Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL "Outsiders In Paradise: Rev. Howard Finster and Company," Cotuit Center For the Arts, Cotuit, MA "Miami in Transition," Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL "Inside the Outsider World: Folk Art from the Permanent Collection," Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL "Outsider Art," Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH "The Mind of Young: Sketchbooks and Artist's Books by Purvis Young and Works from the Permanent Collection," Miami-Dade Public Library, West Dade Regional Library, Miami, FL2005 "Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South," Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL , and The Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY. Organized by The Art Museum, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN "Purvis Young Urban Painter Retrospective 1969-2004," Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, Savannah, GA "Rock Paper Scissors: American Collage Now," The Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA "At This Time: Ten Miami Artists," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL "African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; traveled to Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA "Revelations and Reflections of American Self-Taught Artists," Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX2004 "Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South," The Art Museum, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN "African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (traveled to Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Revelations and Reflections of American Self-Taught Artists," Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT; traveled by ExhibitsUSA to Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA; and Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO "Recent Acquisitions: African American Art in the South," The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA "African-American Art from MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX "Outside/In: American Self-Taught Art from the Mennello Museum of American Folk and the City of Orlando Folk Art Collection," The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL "Purvis Young: From the Rubell Family Collection," The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL2003 "African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," New York Historical Society, New York, NY; traveled to Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL "Revelations and Reflections of American Self-Taught Artists", Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH "Purvis Young: Art and Real Life," Gallery 721, Fort Lauderdale, FL "Purvis Young: Artists' Books from the Permanent Collection Featuring the Work of Purvis Young," Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Library, Miami, FL "Young at 60, Paintings and Drawings by Purvis Young," Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Library, Miami, FL "At 60: The Art of Purvis Young," Skot Foreman Fine Art, Atlanta, GA "Outsider Art," Fox-Martin Fine Arts Gallery, Great Barrington, MA2002 "Purvis Young: The Life I See", Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL "Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA "Recent Work: Purvis Young," Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL "Ancestors: Origin of Community," Lyric Theatre, Miami, FL "Revelations and Reflections of American Self-Taught Artists," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK, traveled to Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ "Urban Outsider and Visionary Folk: The Works of Purvis Young and Minnie Evans," Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL "Purvis Young Paintings and Books from the Permanent Collection," Miami-Dade Public Library, Culmer Overtown Branch, Miami, FL and Miami Beach Branch, Miami Beach, FL2001 "Let It Shine: Self-Taught Art from The T. Marshall Hahn Collection," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA "Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; traveled to The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL 2000 "A Convergent Voyage," Skot Foreman Fine Art, Ltd., Dania Beach, FL "Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL "Purvis Young," at Kunst Koln, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany1999 "Purvis Young," Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH "Purvis Young: Walking Among the Peoples," Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL "Purvis Young," Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL "Self Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology," Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY ;Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY. Organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York City, NY1998 "Self Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York City, NY; traveled to High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; and The Amon Carter Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX "Purvis Young: Painting the Blues," Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH "Purvis Young," Skot Foreman Fine Arts, Ltd., Dania Beach, FL1997 "Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen," DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA "Bearing Witness: African-American Vernacular Art of the South," Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY "Purvis Young-The Streets of Overtown: Paintings on paper and scraps," Armory Art Gallery, Department of Art and Art History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA "Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon," Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA "Purvis Young: Paintings," Pelegro Gallery, New Orleans, LA "Purvis Young: Paintings," Leslie Muth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM1996 "Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South - The Arnett Collection," Emory University Museum, Atlanta City Hall East for the 100th Cultural Olympiad, Atlanta, GA "Purvis Young: Paintings," American Primitive Gallery, New York City, NY "Purvis Young: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions and Books", Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA "Wrestling With History: Selections from the Shelp Collection," Sidney Myhkin Gallery, Bernard Baruch College of The City University of New York, New York City, NY "Naives, Seers, Lone Wolves & World Savers VIII," Dean Jensen gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1995 "Passionate Views of the American South: Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present," Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL "Pictured In My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL "The Outside Eye: Contemporary Art of the South, from the Collection of George Lowe," Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL "Rare Visions: Works by Expressionist and Self-Taught Artists," Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL "Contemporary Folk Art: A View from the Outside," Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center, Boca Raton, FL1994 "Purvis Young: Books and Works on Paper," Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA "Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present," New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA "Purvis Young", Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France "Purvis Young: Art and Real Life," Gallery 721, Fort Lauderdale, FL "New Works, Galerie Moos, Toronto, Canada "Purvis Young," Edward Thorpe Gallery, New York City, NY "Purvis Young", Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL "Street Vision: The Works of Purvis Young," Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL "Purvis Young: From the Street," Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL 1992 "Purvis Young," Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany "Purvis Young Works of Paper (The Books)," Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY "Sam Doyle, William Hawkins, Purvis Young." Edward Thorpe Gallery, New York City, NY1991 "Purvis Young," Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY "Purvis Young: Paintings, Books, Sculptures," Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL1988 "Three From Miami: Carlos Alfonzo, Deborah Schneider, Purvis Young," The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL "Purvis Young," Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL "Purvis Young: Me and My Mink," Artists Space, New York City, NY "Purvis Young: Books & Paintings," Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami Lakes Branch, Miami Lakes, FL1987 "Purvis Young: Books & Paintings," Miami-Dade Public Library, Homestead Branch, Homestead, FL "A Separate Reality: Florida Eccentrics," Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; traveled to Valencia Community College, East Campus and Performing Arts Center Galleries, Orlando, FL "Purvis Young," Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, FL1986 "Transculture Transmedia," Exit Art, New York City, NY "Purvis Young Recent Works," Artifacts Art Salon, Miami, FL Artist completes Miami-Dade County commissioned Art In Public Places mural, Northside Metrorail Station, Miami, FL1985 "Burnt Toast," Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL "Images of Everyday Life (Paintings and Books)," Miami-Dade Public Library, Culmer/Overtown Branch, Miami, FL1984 "Book Exhibition," Katherine Markel, New York City, NY Get Fresh," Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL1983 "Purvis Young: Books," Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, FL Artist completes Mural for the Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Library, Miami, FL 1981 "Purvis Young," Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami Branch Branch, Miami Branch, FL1977 "Contemporary Black Art: A Selected Sampling," Florida International University Art Gallery, Miami, FL1973 "Purvis Young," Miami-Dade Community College North Campus, Miami, FL1972 "Purvis Young," Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL Young installs paintings on exterior walls of buildings in Goodbread Alley, Overtown (Miami), FLSELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY The Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL City of Miami, FL City of Orlando Public Art Collection, Orlando, FL The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Fayette Art Museum, Fayette, AL Federal Reserve Board of Atlanta, GA The Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA House of Blues, Chicago, IL House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues, New Orleans, LA House of Blues, Orlando, FL Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, Savannah, GA Kentucky Folk Art Center, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL The Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA Motorola Corporation, USA Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL The Museum for Biblical Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Naples Art Association, Naples, FL, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Sackner Archives, University of Oregon, Portland, OR Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH. Smithisonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY. Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. read more

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