Ellsworth Young

• Name — Ellsworth Young • Born — 6 July 1866 • Birthplace — Albia, Iowa, U.S. • Died — 26 September 1952 • Place of death — Evanston, Illinois, U.S. • Occupation — Painter and illustrator • Education — Art Institute of Chicago • Parents — Josiah T. Young and Christiana Burns Potts • Relatives — Lafayette Young (uncle)

Young, an Illinois artist, was a member of the Chicago Painters and Sculptors and the Oak Park River Forest Art League. He painted several posters for the war effort of World War I, his best-known probably being "Remember Belgium". The Allied Nations made use of images of supposed German atrocities to bolster their propaganda machine. In 2010, Western Illinois University began looking at stored works of art to refurbish, and discovered a rolled-up painting that held "tremendous historical significance". It was a painting by Young of a river landscape in autumn, and had been commissioned in 1934 to hang in Monroe Hall (later known as Grote Hall) and remaining there for some 60 years until the Hall was demolished in 1991. The painting was sent to the Chicago Conservation Center to be restored.

Ellsworth Young was born in Albia, Iowa, to Josiah Titus Young (1831–1907), an American politician, lawyer, and newspaper editor, and Christiana Burns Potts (maiden; 1831–1898). He was also a nephew of Lafayette Young (1848–1926), Senator from Iowa.

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