Purvis Young, Notebook, c. 1960s. Handmade book containing mixed media drawings on scrap paper affixed to the pages of a children's book. Paint, ink, and crayon. Some pages signed.
Work: 12.5 × 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."
