John Chin Young

John Chin Young 容澤泉 (1909–1997) was a painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 26, 1909.

Young had his first and only art lessons while a student at President William McKinley High School in Honolulu.

Over the years, he acquired an important collection of ancient Asian art, which he donated to the Honolulu Museum of Art and the University of Hawaii at Manoa as the John Young Museum.

His daughter Debbie Young is also a painter residing in Hawaii.

During his 60 years as a working artist, Young exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Art.

Untitled watercolor by John Chin Young, 14.5 x 22 in.
John Young’s signature, 1980
Children on Carousel , oil on canvas painting by John Chin Young, 1975
Tantalus , oil painting by John Chin Young, 1976, Hawaii State Art Museum