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Kenneth Victor Young

Kenneth Victor Young (1933 - 2017) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Kentucky.  Kenneth Young is known for Abstract painting oval images of 'exploding' color.

KENNETH VICTOR YOUNG 1933-2017

Although he is considered a member of the Washington Color School, Kenneth Victor Young sensed he was an outsider. “I felt like they didn’t recognize me as being part of their movement. I was an outsider. I don’t know–because I wasn’t from Washington? Because I didn’t go to Black Mountain College? Those are things that get people into a movement.”

Kenneth Young’s birthplace was Louisville, Kentucky, also the hometown of Bob Thompson and Sam Gilliam, with whom he became friendly. Young met them at the University of Louisville where he studied design and physics and earned a bachelor of science degree. He did further studies at Indiana University and the University of Hawaii. Young served in the United States Navy in the early 1950s, and for a short period, he worked for the DuPont chemical company in Louisville.

In 1964 Young moved to Washington, DC, and joined the staff of the Smithsonian Institution as its first black   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6250 characters.]  Artist bio

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