biografía de Harvey Otis YOUNG (1840-1901)

Lugar de nacimiento: Post Mill, VT

Lugar de defunción: Colorado Springs, CO

Direcciones: Paris, 1879; Colorado (Manitou Springs, Aspen, and Denver), 1879-98; Colorado Springs, 1899-on

Profesión: Landscape painter, teacher

Estudios: Acad. Julian, Paris, 1876; privately with Carolus-Duran in Paris; in Munich, 1870s

Exposiciones: Mechanics Inst., San Fran., 1868, 1875-78; Brooklyn AA, 1876-79; Indust. Expo., Paris Salon, 1878, 1879; Chicago, 1875; NAD, 1879; PAFA Ann., 1879.

Asociaciones: Denver AA (co-founder, 1893)

Obra: Oakland Mus.; Denver AM; Bancroft Lib., Univ. Calif., Berkeley; CGA; Colorado College, Colorado Springs; Penrose Pub. Lib., Colorado Springs

Comentarios: Young is best known for his Rocky Mountain landscapes and mining scenes, many of which are painted in gouache. In 1859, he joined the California Gold Rush, sailing from NYC to San Francisco via Panama. While panning for gold he also made many sketches of the Salmon River area. After serving in the Civil War, he returned to San Francisco in 1866 and established a studio. From 1869-79, he made six trips to study in Europe, but also returned to the West on sketching trips, finalizing paintings in his NYC studio. In 1879, he was bitten by the mining bug again, and settled in Colorado where he dropped painting for many years while he pursued mining silver. Young won a fortune in mining, but when he lost it all, he returned to painting. In his later years, he painted scenes along the route of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad for the company's advertising brochures. Young's name is sometimes mistakenly given as Harvey B. Young due to an error in family records.

Fuentes: G&W; Art Annual, IV. obit.; Clement and Hutton. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 626; P & H Samuels, 544, report Lyndon, VT as an alternate birthplace; 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 305