The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 19, 2024

Scar

Scar

1988
Location: not on view

Description

Young's realist works reflect a tradition in American watercolor painting that stretches back to the 19th-century artists Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer and includes the 20th-century realist Andrew Wyeth. Young, who is white, began to focus on African Americans, especially children, in the 1980s. His works are characterized by a technical mastery of watercolor, a profound attention to detail and tonal relation, and a strong emotional empathy with his subjects. On the back of this work Young explained the subject: "Quenton, now 14 years old. The scar on his right cheek becoming more apparent. Scarred, not only figuratively but emotionally from his environment."
  • Eli Wilner and Co., New York
  • Stephen Scott Young: In the American Tradition (exh. cat. by Valerie Ann Leeds, pub. by John H. Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach), pp. 94-5, 126, repr. p. 95; exh. itenerary: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 7-March 14, 1993; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, April 8-May 9, 1993; Greenvill County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, May 25-July 18, 1993; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, September 12-October 24, 1993; Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, November 18, 1993-January 2, 1994.
  • {{cite web|title=Scar|url=false|author=Stephen Scott Young|year=1988|access-date=19 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.103