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English
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Mahonri Young : His Life and Art
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Salt Lake City
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Signature Books
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"During the first decades of the twentieth century Mahonri Young was one of the leading figures in the realist movement in American sculpture. His statuettes of laborers and working men gained for him his early reputation, and along with his sculptures of prize fighters of the nineteen-twenties, made for him a permanent place in the history of American art. Mahonri Young, a grandson of Brigham Young, was born in 1877 in Salt Lake City where he received his first art training and worked as a newspaper artist. He then continued his studies at the Art Students League in New York City and then at the Academie Julian in Paris. Young lived the majority of his life in the Eastern United States and yet maintained close ties with his native state. As a result, many of his major sculptural commissions were for the Mormon Church and the State of Utah. Since his death in 1957 little has been published on Mahonri Young and his sculpture. It is the purpose of this thesis then to do a study of Mahonri Young's life and work as a sculptor, and to analyze that work and place it in the artistic milieu of his time." [Author's abstract]