Artist book

NameBook

Artist Purvis Young (1943 - 2010)

Dateca. 1970s-1991

Place madeMiami, Florida, United States, North America

MediumPaint, ink, pencil, crayon, paper, book

Dimensions11 9/16 × 9 1/16 × 1 3/4 in. (29.3 × 23 × 4.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift in recognition of Janet Fleisher, A.2020.17.18

Object numberA.2020.17.18

ProvenanceThis gift from the estate of Janet Fleisher consists of multiple works by two self-taught artists—The Philadelphia Wireman and Purvis Young--whom Janet Fleisher represented in her gallery in Philadelphia. Fleisher opened the Janet Fleisher Gallery near Rittenhouse Square in the mid-1960s and operated it for more than 30 years, until her retirement in 1996. She showed an eclectic variety of work, including work by self-taught or “outsider” artists, one of the earliest galleries to champion this genre of work. Janet Fleisher passed away in 2010.

DescriptionThis assemblage is composed of a bound notebook with a glued yellow paper cover, with glued pages on the original notebook pages throughout. The cover has a pink figure riding a horse like figure, with a date and signature in the upper proper left corner reading “6/27/87”.