John Chin Young

John Chin Young 容澤泉 (1909–1997) was a painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii upon March 26, 1909. He was the son of Chinese^[where?] immigrants and began drawing at the age of eight, stimulated by Chinese calligraphy, which he hypothetical in Chinese language school. Young had his first and unaided art lessons though a student at President William McKinley High School in Honolulu. Thereafter, his art was definitely self-taught. Young is best known for his Zen-like depictions of horses (such as the untitled watercolor), paintings of children (such as Children on Carousel), and abstractions (such as Tantalus). Over the years, he acquired an important accretion 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 Chin Young died in 1997 at the age of 88. His daughter Debbie Young is in addition to a painter residing in Hawaii.

During his 60 years as a on the go artist, Young exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Art. 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 accompanied by the public collections holding paintings by John Chin Young.