# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/purvis-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:11:16.886Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/purvis-young"
name: "Purvis Young"
slug: "purvis-young"
description: "Purvis Young was an American artist of Bahamian descent. Young's work is celebrated at the museum and institutional level while also finding a home in many private collections as well, with a following that included Brice Marden, Jane Fonda, Damon Wayans, Jim Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and others. In 2006 a feature documentary titled Purvis of Overtown was produced about his life and work. His work is found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and others. In 2018, he was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame."
tagline: "African American artist (1943-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bateus_de_Young_pintrats_lo_dia_deu_son_aniversari_au_MAM.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1943-02-04"
deathDate: "2010-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.58
  momentum:             2.2
  historical:           6.825056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.purvisyoung.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b8800d2b-6aa3-47c3-8283-1d0af8908726"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "بيرفيس يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "پورڤيس يونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purvis_Young"
    title: "Purvis Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purvis_Young"
    title: "Purvis Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purvis_Young"
    title: "Purvis Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purvis_Young"
    title: "Purvis Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purvis_Young"
    title: "Purvis Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7261674"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump