Notebook

Young, Purvis

3000 USD

Date

1960

Category

Painting

Description

Handmade book of mixed media original drawings, some signed. Paint, ink and crayon on scrap paper attached to pages of a children's book. 12.5 x 9.25 in.

Excerpt

"I put my paintings on a lot of fronts of abandoned buildings. They was fixing to tear them down and build an expressway. I knowed when I was making the art that one day it was going to go. Nothing's going to last forever."