I Know the Sun Will Shine: Mary Proctor, Ruby Williams, and Purvis Young

I Know the Sun Will Shine: Mary Proctor, Ruby Williams, and Purvis Young presents three artists from the Tampa Museum of Art’s (TMA) growing collection of Florida self-taught artists. It builds upon the hallmark installation of TMA’s long-term installation of Purvis Young’s found object paintings and highlights new acquisitions of works by Ruby Williams and Mary Proctor. The three artists represent the major metropolitan areas within the state of Florida—Miami, Tampa, and Tallahassee—and depict experiences in their lives and communities with found objects from their home and neighborhoods. Viewed together, the three artists capture Florida’s artistic history over decades that span the years post Jim Crow and significant migration waves to the historic election of Barack Obama.