Charles Morris Young began painting at the age of sixteen. He attended the Pennyslvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1892 to 1896, where he studied with Robert Vonnoh. In order to pay his tuition, Young carved souvenir canes and etched Civil War scenes. Evidently, Young was somewhat successful at his livelihood, for he was able to finance European training.
In Paris from 1897 to 1898, Young worked at the Academie Colarossi. He became friendly with avant garde artists in Paris, including Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt.
Young was known for his landscapes of the Pennsylvania and Connecticut countryside, as well as his marines of the Maine coast. He was awarded an honorable mention at the Pan-American Expsotion in Buffalo in 1901, as well as two silver medals, one at the Universal Expsoition in Saint Louis in 1904, the other at the International Fine Arts Exhibition, held in Buenos Aires in 1910. Young married Eliza Middleton ? Coxe in 1903. His home burned down in 1962 and the fire consumed some three hundred of his works.
