Artist

Mahonri Young

born Salt Lake City, UT 1877-died Norwalk, CT 1957

Media - J0030469_1b.jpg - 89675 — 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)
: Luce Artist Biography
At the age of five, Mahonri Young modeled his first clay sculptures while recovering from appendicitis. Several years later, he acquired a fifty-cent wood-carving kit and carved a portrait of Julius Caesar, which a visitor to the house described as the work of a 'genius.' He attended an art school in Utah, then worked as a sketch artist for local newspapers to save money to go to New York. He studied at the Art Students League and at the Acadmie Julian in Paris, where he created bronze statues of urban laborers. Although he spent most of his life in New York, he always considered himself a "child of the West" and his last major statue was a tribute to his grandfather Brigham Young, the Mormon leader and colonizer of Utah.

Works by this artist (4 items)

Mahonri Young, Right to the Jaw, 1926-1927, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mahonri Sharp Young, 1976.122.2

Right to the Jaw

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Date1926-1927

bronze

Mahonri Young, The Knockdown, 1931, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mahonri Sharp Young, 1976.122.1

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Date1931

bronze

Mahonri Young, Riggers, 1943, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the heirs of Albert Laessle: Mrs. Albertine de Bempt Laessle, Mr. Albert M. Laessle and Mr. Paul Laessle, 1972.167.32

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Date1943

bronze

Mahonri Young, Beat Him to the Punch, 1932, etching, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Nancy and John Mannes, 1992.28, © 1927, Mahonri S. Young

Beat Him to the Punch

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Date1932

etching