Artist

Mahonri Young

born Salt Lake City, UT 1877-died Norwalk, CT 1957
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Mahonri Young, 1935, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0030469
Also known as
  • Mahonri MacKintosh Young
  • Mahonri M. Young
  • Mahonri Mackintosh Young
Born
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Died
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
  • Branchville, Connecticut, United States
Biography

Sculptor. Young was a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, and a grandson of the Mormon leader Brigham Young. He realistically sculpted working men, prizefighters and Native Americans and was founder of the American Water Color Society.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)