John Chin Young 容澤泉 (1909–1997) was a painter who was born in
Honolulu, Hawaii on March 26, 1909. He was the son of Chinese[where?] immigrants and began drawing at the age of eight, stimulated by
Chinese calligraphy, which he learned in Chinese language school. Young had his first and only art lessons while a student at
President William McKinley High School in Honolulu. Thereafter, his art was entirely self-taught. Young is best known for his Zen-like depictions of horses (such as the untitled watercolor), paintings of children (such as Children on Carousel), and abstractions (such as Tantalus). 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. John Chin Young died in 1997 at the age of 88. His daughter Debbie Young is also a painter residing in Hawaii.