Trenton, Patricia

Harvey Otis Young was born in Lydon, Vt. on Nov. 23, 1840. In 1857, he began studying art in Worcester, Mass., and later moved to San Francisco, Calif. in 1860 to join the search for gold. In 1867, Young opened his first studio as a practicing artist. He also lived and painted in N.Y., Europe and throughout the Western U.S.. He spent his final years in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he died on May 13, 1901. A well-known Western artist, he developed a varnish that gave watercolors the appearance and permanence of oils.

Dr. Patricia Trenton is an author and former curator of American art at the Denver Art Museum.