Support the NPF Foundation

Donations of any amount are welcome and appreciated!

As an all-volunteer Foundation Board all proceeds go directly towards conservation and preservation of Noah’s Outdoor Art Museum, and our efforts to promote Noah’s artwork and legacy. You can donate via PayPal or credit card by clicking on the Donate Now! button. We also accept Venmo payments @Noah_Purifoy.

For a donation of $400 Noah Purifoy Foundation is pleased to offer a copy of either the catalog Noah Purifoy: High Desert or Noah Purifoy Junk Dada, as a thank you gift. Both are difficult to find as they are currently out of print, and we are running low on copies!

Noah Purifoy: High Desert (2015)

The eminent publisher, Steidl has faithfully reproduced a catalog Noah Purifoy himself fabricated with photographs and writings in a 3-ring notebook in 1997. At that time, he wrote this introduction:

This book is divided into three separate parts: The photographs, the photographic chronology and the text. The advantages of this format is to give the viewer at least three options. You can proceed chronologically from the beginning of the book to the end, thereby grasping the artist's full intent to inform, entertain and intrigue. Or you may casually thumb through the book spotting only those details that give meaning to each piece. Or you may flip the pages rapidly just to get a bird's eye view of the content. Or perhaps, you may discover some aspects of the book that we overlooked altogether. Nevertheless no matter what option a viewer chooses to take, it is our desire that each of you get so close to the piece that you see the smoke from its breath as it comes alive.

Noah Purifoy Junk Dada (2015)

This is the exhibition catalog for the Noah Purifoy retrospective at LACMA in 2015 Junk Dada. Photographs of Noah’s work from different phases of his life, but especially the artwork at the Outdoor Sculpture Museum are beautifully presented. Curators, fellow artists and journalists, among others, illuminate his life and work from teaching and social work in Los Angeles, to his pivotal move to the hight desert of Joshua Tree, California in 1998.

If you are interested in receiving either publication please email us at noahpurifoyfdn@gmail.com. Include the mailing address you would like it sent to.

For a donation of $30 you may choose one of the following:

Our 17 oz. double wall stainless steel water bottle keeps your favorite liquids hot for 12 hours and cold for 24 hours! The design of the bottle features “artistamps” by long time Noah Purifoy fan Leslie Caldera:

My aunt lived in Joshua Tree for 50 years, so I have been a regular visitor to the High Desert for most of my life. I learned of Noah and his Outdoor Desert Art Museum 18 years ago and began regularly visiting the site in 2002, whenever I would visit my aunt. I never met Noah, but I know him very well through his amazing work.

As a long time practitioner of Mailart, I have made a series of “artistamps“ over the last 30 years commemorating people and events which interest me. Realizing that Noah’s 100th birthday was in 2017, I was inspired to create the Noah stamps for his centennial.

NEW! For a donation of $20 you may choose three 1” buttons pictured here! Please email us at noahpurifoyfdn@gmail.com and specify which you would like to receive. Include the mailing address you would like it sent to:

A. Welcome Sign, 1998

B. The White House, 1990-93

C. Untitled, Aku’aba, 2000

D. Noah Purifoy

E. No Contest, 1991

F. Noah on the White House

G. Ode to Frank Gehry, 2000