Gertrude Yates Young

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1904 -1993
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BORN
August 12, 1904
Springfield, Missouri
DIED
August 20, 1993
Tallahassee, Florida
EDUCATION
Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, Missouri
Drury College
Springfield, Missouri
GENDER
RACE / ETHNICITY

Gertrude Yates Young was born on August 12, 1904 in Springfield, Missouri.  She attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, and graduated in 1927.  Then she attended Kansas City Art Institute.  She exhibited at Park College in Parkville, Missouri, Kansas City Art Institute, Springfield Art Museum, the Iowa Art Salon, and New Ocean House Hotel in Swampscott, Massachusetts.  Her work can be found in the Drury College’s art collection.  She died on August 20, 1993 in Tallahassee, Florida.

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“Gertrude Yates Young in the Florida, U.S., Death Index, 1877-1998,” Ancestry, accessed October 5, 2021.

“Gertrude Yates Young in the U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current, Tallahassee Democrat,” Ancestry, accessed October 5, 2021.

Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.


Core Reference Sources

Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).

Image Credits

Artwork

Gertrude Yates Young, Susan (& Flute), n.d.

Ink on paper, 30 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.

Drury University Art Collection, Gift of Mrs. [Gertrude] Victor Young, 12/05/1985, 1985.1.

Portrait of Artist

Unknown, Gertrude Yates Young, 1923.

Photograph.

Springfield High School (Springfield, Missouri) yearbook, Résumé, 1923, 53.

Contributors

Amanda Harlan, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Artist Record Published

Published on October 5, 2021

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Artist clippings file is available at:

Artist’s work in these institutions’ collections

Drury University

Bibliography

Select Sources

“Gertrude Yates Young in the Florida, U.S., Death Index, 1877-1998,” Ancestry, accessed October 5, 2021.

“Gertrude Yates Young in the U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current, Tallahassee Democrat,” Ancestry, accessed October 5, 2021.

Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.


Core Reference Sources

Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).

Contributors

Amanda Harlan, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Artist Record Published

Published on October 5, 2021

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Citation

Harlan, Amanda. "Gertrude Yates Young." In Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951. Kansas City: The Kansas City Art Institute and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; St. Louis: The St. Louis Public Library, 2021,https://doi.org/10.37764/5776.