MABEL DODGE LUHAN & COMPANY AM

Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879 1962) was a political, social, and cultural visionary; salon hostess; and collector of genius in almost every field of modernism painting, photography, drama, psychology, radical politics, social reform, and Native American rights. Luhan spent her adult life building utopian communities, first, as an expatriate in Florence (1905 12) working to recreate the Renaissance; next as a New Woman in Greenwich Village (1912 15), hosting one of the most famous salons in American history; and finally, in Taos, the New World (1918 47), bringing together a community of artists, writers, and social reformers including writers D. H. Lawrence, Jean Toomer, Mary Austin, and Frank Waters; choreographer Martha Graham; and anthropologists Elsie Clews Parsons and John Collier. With Luhan as their hostess, these European and American talents found inspiration in the mesas, mountains, Hispanic villages, and Indian pueblos of northern New Mexico. Modernist works by painters and photographers, including Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Rebecca Strand, and Paul Strand, are featured alongside indigenous art that inspired their modernist sensibilities Native American painters like San Ildefonso Pueblo s Awa Tsireh and Taos Pueblo s Pop Chalee, whose work Mabel supported, and traditional Hispano devotional art collected by Luhan."