Young worked at the Smithsonian Institution for over 35 years in exhibition installation and design
after studying and teaching physics at Indiana University and chemical engineering at the University
of Louisville. He was also an art instructor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Duke Ellington
School of the Arts in Washington, DC. His paintings have been included in exhibitions at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Corocoran Gallery and theWashington Project for the Arts.
His 1973 painting in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum was recently
included in
African-American Art, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights and Beyond
, their 2012-14 traveling
exhibition, and illustrated in the catalogue. Mecklenburg/Powell pp. 230-231
[12,000/18,000]
