Burial Over the City

Purvis Young

About 1990

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Jacquard-weave two-panel tapestry with handmade shoes and crocheted leaves
Walking man wearing green pants, white shirt, and yellow hat.
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Color photograph of eight African-American kids (and one older female) on the stoop of an urban brownstone. The five boys in the foreground appear to be harmonizing. Most of the kids are holding bottles of Coke.