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Painter and lithographer Oscar Van Young (1906-1993) and painter Loli Vann (1913-1999), were active in Chicago and Los Angeles. They were married from 1935 until Van Young's death in 1993.
Van Young was born in Austria but his family moved to Russia in 1918 where he received a scholarship to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Odessa. He moved to the U.S. in 1923, living with relatives in Chicago and working for a linen shop before becoming an apprentice in an engraving house and an artist lithographer. He lost his job in 1930 and began painting full time. Around 1932, Young met Sam Ostrowsky who soon became his private painting instructor. It was at Ostrowsky's studio that Young met Loli Vann and the two were married in 1935. The couple frequently exhibited their artwork in joint exhibitions and moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s.
Over the next several decades, Young had one-man shows at many California museums and elsewhere in the United States, and was represented in multiple group exhibitions. He attended Los Angeles State College from 1954 to 1959, earning his bachelor's and master's degree, and subsequently taught art at Pasadena City College (1959-1973), California State University at Los Angeles (1960-1963), and elsewhere. His work can be found in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum, Israel Art Museum, Chaffey College, Smithsonian Institution, and private collections around the world.
Loli Vann studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Sam Ostrowsky. She exhibited her paintings at Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles Art Association, Pasadena Art Institute, Chaffey Community Art Association, La Jolla Art Center, Cowie Galleries, Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Glendale Public Library. Vann worked as an executive secretary for the Los Angeles Division of Labor Law Enforcement form circa 1950 to 1975 before retiring to focus on painting full time.
