Snow Show

To people who collect etchings, the name of C. (for Charles) Jac Young is celebrated for scenes of snow. Last week in muggy Manhattan's new air-conditioned Associated American Artists' Galleries, Artist Young presented a show which cooled its beholders with 77 etchings and drawings most of which were his famed snow studies, demonstrated that he was an accomplished limner of other subjects as well. Sidling crabwise around the exhibit's two rooms, gallery-goers noted that Etcher Young skilfully shows his snow in three varieties: 1) wet, soft and falling; 2) powdery, windblown; 3) frozen. Like all good etchers Artist Young was able to make pleasing esthetic capital of his bare, black trees, winterset in the tranquil snowscapes. Contrasted were plates from the conventional etcher's portfolio of boats, birds, shorelines, woodland vistas.

Besides the fact that he makes a specialty of snow, Etcher Young is remarkable in that he is probably the only well-known artist who was once in the restaurant business. Born Charles Jacob Jung in Bavaria 55 years ago, Artist Young was taken as an infant to Manhattan, followed his father into the catering trade, was manager for 22 years of a newshawks' and politicians' restaurant in Manhattan's Chambers Street. Pink & white, still professionally appreciative of good cooking, Artist Young has his studio in the basement of his Weehawken Heights, N. J. home, gets from $5 to $48 for his etchings. For the snowscapes for which he has developed such a sensitivity, Etcher Young bundles up in woolens, leather boots, skating cap, takes along an umbrella to protect his sketching block, placidly stands in snowbanks until he is satisfied with his drawing. Etcher Young makes his own etching instruments from rattail files and dentists' drills, finest steel he can obtain.

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