Mabel Dodge Luhan (18791962) was a political, social, and cultural
visionary; salon hostess; and collector of genius in almost every
field of modernismpainting, 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 (190512) working to recreate the
Renaissance; next as a New Woman in Greenwich Village (191215),
hosting one of the most famous salons in American history; and
finally, in Taos, the New World (191847), 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 OKeeffe, Ansel Adams, Rebecca
Strand, and Paul Strand, are featured alongside indigenous art that
inspired their modernist sensibilitiesNative American painters like
San Ildefonso Pueblos Awa Tsireh and Taos Pueblos Pop Chalee, whose
work Mabel supported, and traditional Hispano devotional art
collected by Luhan.
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