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Charles Morris Young
Lyme Art Colony
(1869–November 14, 1964) In Lyme: 1911
Charles Morris Young was born in Radnor, Pennsylvania in 1869. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Academie Colarossi in Paris. he worked primarily in oils, but was also an accomplished etcher, used watercolors and pastels. He is manily known for landscape paintings of his native Main Line, Pennsylvania. His work is represented in many museums and galleries.

He exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. In 1894 he won the Toppan prize at the PAFA annual exhibition. He won medals for his work at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, the St. Louis Exposition in 1904, the Buenos Aires Exposition in 1910, the Pan-Pacific Exposition in 1915, and at the PAFA in 1921.

Young was a member of the Philadelphia Art Club, the Philadelphia Water Color Club, and he was an Associate of the National Academy of Fine Art.

In 1962, fire destroyed his Pennsylvania home and studio. The loss was close to 190 paintings and personal belongings. Young died in Gettysburg on November 14, 1964.

In 1989 burglars invaded the home of his son stealing more paintings and family heirlooms.


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