John Chin Young
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Early life
John Chin Young was born on March 26, 1909, in Chinatown in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (now Hawaii, U.S.).[3] He was the son of ChineseScript error: No such module "Unsubst". immigrants and began drawing at the age of eight, stimulated by Chinese calligraphy, which he learned in Chinese language school.
Young had his first and only art lessons while a student at President William McKinley High School in Honolulu. Thereafter, his art was entirely self-taught.
Career
Over the years, he acquired an important collection of ancient Asian art, African art, and Pre-Columbian art,[3] which he donated to the Honolulu Museum of Art and the University of Hawaii at Manoa as the John Young Museum.
Young exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Art. In 1935, he had a solo exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Art (now Honolulu Museum of Art).[3] Young exhibited his work at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) in San Francisco.[3]
Young died in 1997 at the age of 88.[3] His daughter Debbie Young is also a painter residing in Hawaii.
The Art Institute of Chicago, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (California) are among the public collections holding paintings by Young.[4][5]
References
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- ↑ Honolulu Museum of Art, wall labels, Koolau Mountains, 1983, accession 5168.1 and Heavy Sea, 1940, accession 11753.1
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Further reading
- Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 213-270.
- Haar, Francis and Neogy, Prithwish, Artists of Hawaii: Nineteen Painters and Sculptors, University of Hawaii Press, 1974, 144-150.
- Hartwell, Patricia L. (editor), Retrospective 1967-1987, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987, p. 58
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Painting Today, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950.
- Morse, Morse (ed.), Honolulu Printmakers, Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2003, pp. 33 & 42, Template:ISBN
- Papanikolas, Theresa and DeSoto Brown, Art Deco Hawai'i, Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014, Template:ISBN, p. 130
- Yim, Susan, John Young, The sketchbooks, Honolulu, John Young Foundation in association with Outreach College, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1998.
- Yoshihara, Lisa A., Collective Visions, 1967-1997, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1997, 63.
- Young, John, John Young, A retrospective, Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1996.
- Young, John, Sketchbook in Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts, Winter, 1994, 81-86.
- UH-Manoa Catalog for Archival Materials: John Young Papers https://archivesspace.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/repositories/4/resources/355
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- 1909 births
- 1997 deaths
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century American male artists
- American male painters
- Painters from Hawaii
- Artists from Honolulu
- American artists of Chinese descent
- Hawaii people of Chinese descent
- President William McKinley High School alumni