S. Davis Those who previously have known Mahonri Young solely as a sculptor and associated his name principally with Utah and the This Is the Place and Seagull monuments have only seen the merest tip of the iceberg.
Delightful surprises await all who attend either or both exhibitions.
What Mahonri saw was the people and their occupations in farms, deserts, mountains, cities, and ports. In everyday language, I am eye-minded. Men scythe fields in the shadow of the Danbury Hills of Connecticut, and women tend sheep on the mesas of Arizona. The Hokey-Pokey man vends treats to children on the streets of New York, and an Italian woman bends over a river scrubbing her laundry. Cats sleep in rattan chairs, lions languidly stretch out on the ground, insects hover over leaves, and a hippopotamus turns its back on the artist to sit down with unmistakable solidity.