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Purvis Young
  • PY - Sometimes I Get Emotion from the Game - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
  • PY - Sometimes I Get Emotion from the Game - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
  • PY - Sometimes I Get Emotion from the Game - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
Early 1980s
Ballpoint pen and marker, on paper glued to found book
12.25 x 17.75 inches
Collection of
The Morgan Library & Museum
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

"I love sports. Sometimes I hate to lose. When that feeling get me, I do ballplayers, reaching up, trying to catch a pass, happy to be playing, happy to be winning. Playing in the projects, sometimes that's all they could do, one way of passing time.”