Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Mahonri Young is best known as a sculptor and painter of religious subjects and in New York City for sculpture and paintings of of boxers and laboring people. In... Read full biography
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Mahonri Young is best known as a sculptor and painter of religious subjects and in New York City for sculpture and paintings of of boxers and laboring people. In America he was one of the early sculptors of genre figures, that is everyday people going about their... Read full biography
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Mahonri Young is best known as a sculptor and painter of religious subjects and in New York City for sculpture and paintings of of boxers and laboring people. In America he was one of the early sculptors of genre figures, that is everyday people going about their everyday lives. He introduced these social realist subjects in 1904, and this focus on non-lofty subjects has been perceived as a threat to the Beaux Arts style that had been prevalent because of the... Read full biography
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Mahonri Young is best known as a sculptor and painter of religious subjects and in New York City for sculpture and paintings of of boxers and laboring people. In America he was one of the early sculptors of genre figures, that is everyday people going about their everyday lives. He introduced these social realist subjects in 1904, and this focus on non-lofty subjects has been perceived as a threat to the Beaux Arts style that had been prevalent because of the European academic training of the dominant sculptors such as Augustus Saint Gaudens. However, this new realism of Young's, inspired by his exposure to the French peasants in the paintings of Jean-Francois Millet, did not have wide-spread popularity... Read full biography
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Mahonri Young is best known as a sculptor and painter of religious subjects and in New York City for sculpture and paintings of of boxers and laboring people. In America he was one of the early sculptors of genre figures, that is everyday people going about their everyday lives. He introduced these social realist subjects in 1904, and this focus on non-lofty subjects has been perceived as a threat to the Beaux Arts style that had been prevalent because of the European academic training of the dominant sculptors such as Augustus Saint Gaudens. However, this new realism of Young's, inspired by his exposure to the French peasants in the paintings of Jean-Francois Millet, did not have wide-spread popularity until the 1930s. Young was a grandson of Brigham Young, immigration leader of the Mormons to Utah, and as a boy he began sculpting with... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (84)
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Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts
2009
Poulton, Donna L. and Vern G. Swanson
304 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
150 Year Survey: Utah Art and Artists
2001
Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, Donna L. Poulton, and Janie L. Rogers
160 pages (color)
A Song of Joys: The Biography of Mahonri Mackintosh Young, Sculptor
1999
Davis, Norma S
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Selections from Gertrude Vandeveer Spratlen Collection
1997
Schlier, Deborah
63 pages (color)
Mahonri Young: His Life and Art
1997
Toone, Thomas E
0 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium
1994
Reynolds, Donald Martin
275 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Utah Art
1991
Swanson, Vern; Robert Olpin, William Seifrit
252 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Sport in Art From American Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown
128 pages (color)
American Pastels In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1989
Bolger, Doreen (others)
247 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection
1987
Strickler, Susan (editor)
232 pages (color)
Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Deeds, Daphne Anderson
64 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Sims, Lowery Stokes
167 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Olympics in Art, An Exhibitio Works of Art Related to Olympic Sports (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst
166 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
The American Perspective (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Maurice Sternberg, Galleries
48 pages (color)
The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930
1979
Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan
96 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection
1977
Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward)
256 pages (color)
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Fifty Great Western Illustrators A Bibliographic Checklist
1975
Dykes, Jeff
456 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago