Harold William Young joined the evening newspaper, the Auckland Star as a lithographic artist before becoming a manager of the lithographic department in the early 1900s. In 1913 he left the newspaper and went into business as a professional artist. He become known for his numerous scenes of Auckland's West Coast and Waitakeres. Doubly gifted as both poet and painter, Young often illustrated his poems. One of his pen and ink works of Auckland's Waitemata Harbour was reproduced in New Zealand Graphic, 1913. The Auckland Art Gallery holds a collection of forty three pen and ink drawings and watercolours which may be viewed online.

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This rare work has remained in the same Waikato based family for nearly a century and is now on the market for the first time.