Mabel Dodge Luhan & company
Subtitle: American moderns and the West
By: edited by Lois P. Rudnick and MaLin Wilson-Powell ; Introduction by Wanda M. Corn ; With essays by Lois P. Rudnick, MaLin Wilson-Powell, Carmella Padilla
Contributors: Harwood Museum; Albuquerque Museum; Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780890136140
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Art patronage; Exhibitions; American Art
Other titles: Mabel Dodge Luhan and company
Description: "In Taos, Mabel and her husband, Antonio "Tony" Lujan of Taos Pueblo, built an enclave that consisted of a seventeen-room "Big House" and five guesthouses. From 1918 through 1947, scores of visitors found her home and its environs an inspiring place where they could help to create a new national art and culture. In Taos, West coast luminaries crossed paths with East Coast movers and shakers. With Luhan as their guide, hostess, and impressario, these European and American talents found inspiration in the mesas, mountains, Hispano villages, and INdian pueblos of northern New Mexico. This book - copiously illustrated with works by major artists and drawing on extensive collections of archival and scholarly research - illuminates the regional, national, and international significance of Luhan's life and legacy."
Notes: Published in connection with the traveling exhibition Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: Amercian Moderns and the West.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A real creator of creators" :; title: how Mabel Dodge Luhan catalyzed American modernism  -- Lois P. Rudnick; title: Mabel Dodge Luhan :; title: a new way to see and new things to say  -- MaLin Wilson-Powell; title: Whose history? :; title: Anglo patronage and the reframing of Hispano art and culture -- Carmella Padilla.