Philip Alston Willcox Purvis (born 1943), son of Melvin Purvis, is an American graphic designer, artist, professor and author.
He currently is an associate professor at Boston University College of Fine Arts where he has been chairman of the department since September 1982.
He has presented lectures at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Wolfsonian Foundation at Florida International University, and many other venues.
He wrote a biography of his father, Melvin Purvis and his feud with J. Edgar Hoover, The Vendetta: FBI Hero Melvin Purvis’s War Against Crime and J. Edgar Hoover’s War Against Him.
[1] As author: As contributor: Stichting De Ploeg, Groninger Museum Groningen, The Netherlands, 2005