She studied at the Art Student League in New York with William Merrit Chase, visited Holland for a year, and then maintained a studio in Chicago for seven years, where she studied with Nicolai Fechin at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In 1923, Florence made her studio home in Alhabra, California where her "Artist Alley" neighbors included legendary artists Clyde Forsythe, Sam Hyde Harris, Frank Tenney Johnson, and Jack Wilkinson Smith. Associated with the "Artist Alley" group was Norman Rockwell, Clyde Forsythe's studio mate from his New York days, who visited Artist Alley each winter to escape Massachusetts winters. From her southern California studio, Florence painted California scenes, northward to Monterey Bay, Carmel, Yosemite and even to the Gulf of Alaska. And like her neighbors on Artist's Alley, she loved painting California desert scenes.

In Who Was Who in American Art by Peter Falk, Florence Upson Young's painting is likened to California painting giants Edgar Payne, William Wendt, Maurice Braun, Seldon Gile, Percy Gray, the Wachtels, Hanson Puthuff, Sam Hyde Harris and more.

She has been exhibited widely, was a member of Women Painters of the West and the Society for Sanity in Art. Her work may be seen in the Orange County Museum, and the Iowa Museum. Source: AskArt.com