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Aug 17, 1917 Snow Hill, Alabama, United States Died on 05 May 2004 (aged 86)
American artist
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About Noah Purifoy
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- Purifoy (August 17, 1917 – March 5, 2004) was an African-American visual artist and sculptor, co-founder of the Watts Towers Art Center, and creator of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum.
- He lived and worked most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California.
- Purifoy was the first African American to enroll in Chouinard Art Institute as a full-time student and earned his BFA in 1956, just before his fortieth birthday.
- He is best known for his assemblage sculpture, including a body of work made from charred debris and wreckage collected after the Watts Riots of August 1965. "I do not wish to be an artist.
- I only wish that art enables me to be." - Noah Purifoy, 1963
