Background
He was the son of Chinese immigrants and began drawing at the age of eight, stimulated by Chinese calligraphy, which he learned in Chinese language school.
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John Young
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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. Over the years, he acquired an important collection of ancient Asian art, which he donated to the Honolulu Museum of Art and the University of Hawaii at Manoa as the John Young Museum.
John Chinese Young died in 1997 at the age of 88.
During his 60 years as a working artist, Young exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, District of Columbia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Artist 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 John Chinese Young.
