Webb Young (1913-2005)

For over 70 years, Webb Young studied and painted New Mexico landscapes, architecture and people, capturing what perhaps few others have, the flavor and beauty of old New Mexico. 

Young was born in Covington, Kentucky on September 2, 1913.  He grew up in Winnetka, a suburb on the lake near Chicago, Illinois, where his father was in the advertising business.  His mother was a concert pianist.  Webb Young had two older brothers: Jim, a writer and teacher, and Dick, an airline pilot. 

Widely known as a "Painter of the New Mexico Scene," Young had an interest in painting that began at age 11 with art classes at the Chicago Art Institute.  From 1925 through 1928, he was in New Mexico studying painting under the famous Southwestern painter, Gerald Cassidy.  In 1927, he attended a session in Vienna.  More training sessions at Chicago Art Institute in 1933 and 1934, refresher courses with the Famous Artists School in the early 1950s and study at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in the mid-1960s rounded out his extensive training.

In 1928, the family bought a ranch in New Mexico near Cochiti Pueblo.  The ranch became their summer home for many years.  Young did lots of horseback riding and enjoyed the outdoors.  At the ranch, Rancho de la Cañada, young Webb's father, Jim, eventually developed a large apple orchard.  Mr. Young donated the entire ranch to the University of New Mexico in 1965.

Webb Young passed away on February 12, 2005 in Denver, Colorado.

Biography excerpted from Masterpiece Online

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