Riggers Riveters. Bronze medal. 73 mm; 2 7/8 inches (diameter). Edition of approximately 700. Incised signature and date, lower left obverse and incised monogram, lower right reverse. Produced by the Medallic Art Company, New York for the Society of Medalists 30th issue, incised on the bottom edge. 1943.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Young was the grandson of Bringham Young. He began to sculpt as a child and showed himself to be a precocious young talent. Young settled in New York and attended the Art Students League and the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris. The subjects of his work, rendered in the Social Realist style, were industrial laborers and construction workers who transformed New York. Young's proposal to the Society of Medalists, who issued cast medals approximately twice a year, was selected by the committee and he was awarded the 30th issue.
