Howard Young (Q18704505)
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American art collector and art dealer (1878-1972)
- Stephen Howard Young
- S Howard Young
- H. Young
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Howard Young |
American art collector and art dealer (1878-1972) |
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22 May 1878Gregorian
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S. Howard Young, one of the world's wealthiest art dealers, died yesterday in his galleries in the Pierre Hotel after a brief illness. He was 94 years old on May 22.Mr. Young was a close friend of the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower and was a great uncle of the actress Elizabeth Taylor. Her father, Francis Taylor, had been Mr. Young's only partner in a 75‐year career. Mr. Taylor, who died in 1968, was Mr. Young's nephew.The art dealer was a resident of Miami Beach and had sum mer homes in Ridgefield, Conn., and Minocqua, Wis.It was during a weekend visit with Mr. Young at Ridgefield in 1952 that General Eisenhower, then president of Columbia University, decided to enter the Presidential race. Also present were Bob Considine and Frank Farrell, the newspaper colum nists. (English)
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He was as wise in his art dealings as he was investing. His greatest achievement was his discovery of the "Lost El Greco"--"Christ Healing The Blind." This painting now hangs in the Metropolitan Art Museum.In his art dealings, Young had one regret. He bought a Van Gogh for $5,000, sold it for $10,000, and shortly before his death it sold for $850,000. (English)
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Galérie Barbazanges, Paris, by Jan. 4, 1923. [this and the following per New American Art Galleries sale cat., January 4–5, 1923, lot 109]; sold to Meyer Goodfriend, New York and Paris, by Jan. 4, 1923; Meyer Goodfriend sale, New York and Paris, New American Art Galleries, New York, Jan. 5, 1923, lot 109, to John Levy Galleries, New York, for $2,000. [According to an annotated copy of New York, New American Art Galleries sale cat., Jan. 4–5, 1923, lot 109, photocopy in curatorial object file]. Howard Young, New York, by Mar. 28, 1923. [this and the following per verso of an archival photograph of The Laundress inscribed by Howard Young and dated Mar. 28, 1923, curatorial object file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester (d. 1956), Chicago, by Mar. 28, 1923; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947. (English)
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Philipp von Gomperz Collection, Vienna, Austria (looted by the Nazis, 1940; restituted, 2000). Acquired by the North Carolina Museum of Art as the partial gift of Cornelia and Marianne Hainisch in tribute to their great-uncle Philipp von Gomperz, and as a partial purchase with funds from the State of North Carolina, Mrs. George Khuner, Howard Young, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, D. H. Cavat (in memory of W.R. Valentiner), Ernest V. Horvath, and Arthur Leroy and Lila Fisher Caldwell, by exchange, and Thomas S. Kenan III (English)
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The reconstructed history of the Turner now has it disappearing after the 1943 auction and resurfacing in 1956, when Emile Leitz of Paris sold it to a London dealer. It was bought by the Howard Young Galleries in New York in 1957 and presumably sold to a Mrs. Chamberlain, who owned it until 1966, when it came into the possession of the Newhouse. The gallery, no longer in business, sold it to the Kimbell for an undisclosed sum. (English)