The Edge of the Desert	Florence Upson Young 1872 - 1974 Biographical Sketch	Half Dome, Yosemite
Eucalyptus and Mountain	Cabin in the Foothills	Inlet
Cypress Cove	Desertscape	Mt. Whitney from the Alabama Hills

Florence Upson Young lived to be 101 years old. Perhaps her love of painting had a large part to do with her longevity.

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

In 1923, she made her studio home in Alhabra, California where her "artist alley" neighbors included Clyde Forsythe, Sam Hyde Harris, Frank Tenney Johnson, and Jack Wilkinson Smith. From her southern California studio, she painted California scenes, northward to Monterey Bay, Carmel, Yosemite and even to the Gulf of Alaska. And like her neighbors on Artist's Alley in Alhambra, she painted California's deserts.

In Who Was Who in American Art by Peter Falk, Florence Upson Young's painting is compared with 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. Back to the top

Source: AskArt.com