Joseph Louis Young is an American artist. Recipient National Army Arts contest award, 1945; Huntington Hartford Foundation fellow, 1952-1953; named Cavaliere Della Republica Italiana (Knight of the Italian Government), 1975.
Background
Ethnicity:
Russian and Romanian extraction. Family left Europe beginning of the 20th century, father's side migrating to England, mother's side to the U.S.
Joseph Louis Young was born on November 27, 1919 in Pittsburgh. Only child of Louis and Jennie (Eger) Young, who owned a business in Aliquippa, PA. Jennie Young was a talented painter and encouraged Young in his artistic talents.
In 1949 Young married Millicent Edith Goldstein, a classical concert pianist. The couple lived and worked in Boston, Mass prior to receiving fellowships and studying one year at the American Academy in Rome. They moved Los Angeles in 1952, where Young had a teaching fellowship at the Huntington Hartford Foundation in Pacific Palisades.
Joseph and Millicent Young had two daughters, Leslie (1955) and Cecily (1957). He and his wife resided in Los Angeles until his death in 2007, and her death in 2010.
Education
Graduate: Randolph Macon Military Academy (boarding high school)
Graduate, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1941; D. Little, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1960; Edwin Austin Abbey mural painting scholar, 1949; Graduate, Boston Museum School Fine Arts, 1951; Albert H. Whitin traveling fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1952.
Career
Newspaperman, Pittsburgh and New York City, 1941-1943; lecturer Tufts College, 1949; painting instructor Boston Museum School, 1950; Idylwild Arts Foundation, 1959; Brandeis Camp Institute, 1962-1974; founder, director Joseph Young Mosaic Workshop, from 1953; founding chairman department architectural arts Brooks Santa Barbara (California) School Fine Arts, 1969-1975; head museum exhibits Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California, 1977-1978; head visual arts Comprehensive Employment Training Act program, City of Los Angeles, 1978-1980; Organized international sculpture competition for city of Huntington Beach, California, 1974; art consultant Allied Arts Commission, City of Huntington Beach, 1973-1974; consultant Art in Public buildings Program, California Arts Council, 1976-1977; field administrator Chromated Copper Arsenate/Comprehensive Employment Training Act Program, Los Los Angeles; Invited principal speaker at national conventions American International Assurance, American Craftsmen Council, 4th Congress I.A.P.A., 7th National Sculpture Conference, Council of America, University Kansas; lecturer Rome, Venice, Florence (as guest) Italian government, 1959; Restoration of mosaics from Greek and Roman periods and Della Robbia sculpture, 1972-1973; author: A Course in Making Mosaics, 1957, Mosaics, Principles and Practice, 1963, also articles in professional journals; public mural painting bibliography, 1946; associate founding editor: Creative Crafts mag, 1960-1964; concept and design: ART$MARKET, 1979; work featured 16mm documentary film The World of Mosaic; true fresco, oil and mosiac mural commissions in, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, survey government sponsored mural painting programs, 1951; one man show, Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center, 1950, Falk-Raboff Gallery, Los Angeles, 1953, ten year retrospective exhibition architectural art work, Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, 1963, California council American International Assurance Fine Arts Architecture Exhibition, 1964, National Gold Medal Exhibition of New York Architectural League, 1951, Platt Gallery, Bel Air, California, 1996; work reproduced in numerous books, magazines, newspapers throughout the world; invited to submit designs for Nebraska State Capitol murals, paintings and mosiacs in numerous private collections; executed mosiac murals Los Angeles Police Facilities Building, 1955, Don Bosco Technology High School, 1956, Temple Emanuel, 1957, Southland Shopping Center, 1958, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 1959, Cameo residence, Beverly Hills, California, 1961, Santa Barbara Stock Exchange, 1960, St. Martins Church, La Mesa, California, 1966, stained glass windows, liturgical art program, Congregation Beth Sholom, San Francisco, 1966, West Apse of National Shrine of Immaculate Conception, Washington, 1966, mosiac arch, Eden Memorial Park, San Fernando, California, 1960; commissioned to execute mural, Los Angeles County Hall of Records, Shalom Memorial Park, Chicago, B.V.M. Presentation Church, Midland, Pennsylvania, 1961, Hollenbeck Police Station, Los Angeles, 1963, Beth Emet Temple, Anaheim, California, 1963, Temple Sinai, Glendale, California, 1963, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, 1963, Valley Beth Israel, Sun Valley, California, 1964, Beth Tikvah, Westchester, California, 1964, Belmont High School, Los Angeles, 1972; commissioned to design and execute 14 bas-relief concrete-mosaic murals for exterior of, Mathematical Sciences Building at University of California at Los Angeles, bronze sculpture, La Mirada (California) Civic Theatre, 1979; did liturgical art programs for, Congregation B'nai B'rith, Santa Barbara, Temple Beth Torah, Alhambra, Temple Beth Ami, West Covina, Temple Menorah, Redondo Beach, Temple Solael, Canoga Park, Temple Bamidbar, Lancaster, Temple Beth Jacob, Redwood City (all California), other congregations in California, concrete bas reliefs, Southgate County Public Library, 1973, mosaics for, St. Mary of Angels, Hollywood, California, 1973, Triforium polyphonoptic, kinetic tower, Los Angeles Mall, 1969-1975; multimedia presentations for, 400th Anniversary Michelangelo, Italian Trade Commission, Casa de Maria, Santa Barbara, Hancock College, Santa Maria, Los Angeles County Museum Art, University California, Los Angeles and Irvine., designs for Holocaust Monument for Pan-Pacific Park in Los Angeles won national competition and dedicated in 1992; appointed to City of West Hollywood Arts Commission; chairman Fine Arts Board, University of Judaism, Los Angeles; completed cycle of Stained Glass windows for Ventura County Jewish Community Center devoted to theme of Seven Days of Creation, 12 tribes stained glass for Temple Beth Israel, West Hollywood, California, 1991; work subject of restrospective exhibition at the Jewish Community Galleries, 1986; commissioned projects now represented by Yanov & Gold, Limited of Los Angeles, California; chapel design Heritage Pointe, Mission Viejo, California.