| "...his
color is almost unfailingly apt, imaginative
and attractive. For a young man, too, he
commands an exceptionally wide palette."
—The New Yorker
 Personal
A Fulbright Scholar to Haiti,
he painted, filmed and studied its vodun
culture for over three decades. In Manhattan
he shared his loft
in the flower district with LIFE photographer
W. Eugene Smith, maintaining friendships
with Jackson Pollock, William Dekooning,
Franz Kline and Zero Mostel. For five years
he hosted weekly jazz sessions where musicians
as diverse as Thelonious Monk, Pee Wee Russell,
Zoot Sims and Charles Mingus regularly played.
David Young was born in Eastham, Cape Cod
on Feb. 15, 1930. He passed away from emphysema
on May 22, 2001.
Professional
At the age of 21, David had his first one-man
show of paintings at the Mortimer Levitt
Gallery in New York.
Exhibitions
- Mortimer Levitt, NYC
- Shore Studios, Provincetown
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Swetzoff, Boston
- March Gallery, NYC
- Studio Gallery, Miami
- HCE, Provincetown
- Holland-Goldowsky, Chicago
- Blackhawk, Chicago
- Zabriskie, NYC
- Summerhalt, NYC
- Townhouse Galleries, Fort Lauderdale
- Gayhead Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard
- OIA, NYC
- Swansboro, Wellfleet
- Andre Zarre, NYC
- National Press Club, Washington
- State Department, Washington
- His work is in many private collections
as well as the Hirschorn-Smithsonian
in Washington
Publications
- Bennington Review
- JazzIz
- Cape Cod Times
- Brilliant Corners: The Journal of
Jazz & Literature
- DoubleTake
- HeadPress U.K.
- New York Times
Films/Documentaries
- "Roots
of the Cold War", a film he
produced and directed for historian
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- "Klaximo",
an avant-garde film from 1963 produced
and directed independently which been
shown at the Knitting Factory, NYC and
is available for festivals and gallery
events.
- "Inconveniences",
an autobiography
- CNN InTime produced and aired a feature
on the David X Young JazzLoft
- CBS Sunday Morning produced a feature
on the David X Young JazzLoft
Writing
- "The
Duck Season", a screenplay
for a feature filmset in Cape Cod
- "Rwa
Congo", a screenplay for a
feature film set in Haiti and based
on a true story
- "Cizamon", a fully-illustrated
children's book which placed in the
finals for the Brandt Point Prize
of Beverly Hills
"One of the Boston-New York artists
who honestly developed from that controversial
period of American Art."
— Charles Egan
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