[2] He attended Goldsmiths, University of London (1950–1953), studying painting and learned there about Sir Herbert Read, whom he admired.
[4] Among these artists were many little-known to the public at the time such as Iain Baxter, Ivan Eyre, Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe and Michael Snow.
The exhibition spread news to England and to America of the high quality of contemporary Canadian art[4] and was reviewed favorably by Lucy Lippard in ArtsCanada.
[10] The show was followed by what turned out to be Young’s swan song at the Art Gallery of Ontario, an exhibition titled Recent vanguard acquisitions (1971), of his Canadian and International purchases during his years there, mostly sculpture with a predominance of American artists such as Donald Judd and among painters, Chuck Close (Young bought his colossal portrait of "Kent").
[12] In 1972, Young met Gerald Ferguson, who visited him at the Art Gallery of Ontario to show him prints from the NSCAD Lithography Workshop.
[14] When the college created the NSCAD Press, Young chaired the publications committee and oversaw the design and translation of its first book, Paul-Émile Borduas: Écrits/Writings 1942-1958 (1978).