Young, Otis Harvey- California Coast

Harvey Otis Young (1840-1901) Landscape painter. Born in Lyndon, VT on Nov 23, 1840. Young was educated at St Johnsbury Academy in Vermont and as a teenager, worked as an ornamental painter decorating scales. In 1859 he sailed from NYC via Panama to San Francisoc in search of gold. When not panning for gold in the Salmon River area, he made many sketches which often included a burro, his content companion in his mining ventures. He served a short time in the Civil War in the Federal Cavalry and was stationed at Walla Walla with Bret Harte, the author. By 1866 Young had returned to San Francisco where he established a studio at 314 Sutter Street and began exhibiting locally. During the 1870s he made several trips to Europe to study art in Munich and at Academie Julian in Paris. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1879, he settled in Colorado as a resident of Manitou Springs , Aspen and Denver. During his time he sketched throughtout the West, but in the 1880s he deserted art for a number of years while he made and lost a fortune in mining. For a time The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad provided him with a studio car from which he painted scenes along its route for the company's advertising brochures. Young is best known for his Rocky Mountain landscapes and mining scenes.

Dim: 16" x 22"