| 词条 | Mahonri Young |
| 释义 |
| name = | image = Mahonri M. Young.jpg | image_size = | alt = Photo of Mahonri M. Young | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = August 9, 1877 | birth_place = Salt Lake City, Utah Territory | death_date = {{d-da|November 2, 1957|August 9, 1877}} | death_place = Norwalk, Connecticut | nationality = | spouse = Cecelia Sharp Dorothy Weir | children = 2 | parents = Mahonri M. and Agnes M. Young | known_for = | education = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = | elected = | website = }}{{MedalTableTop | name = no | medals ={{MedalSport | Art competitions }}{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}{{MedalGold | 1932 Los Angeles | Sculpture: Statues }} }} Mahonri Mackintosh Young (August 9, 1877 – November 2, 1957) was an American sculptor and artist. Although he lived most of his life in New York City, two of his works, the This Is The Place Monument and the Seagull Monument are featured prominently in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mahonri was the grandson of the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and first Governor of Utah, Brigham Young. BiographyYoung was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory to Mahonri Moriancumer Young and Agnes Mackintosh Young just 20 days before the death of his grandfather Brigham Young[1]. Young's own father died when he was eight. Rather than high school, Young chose to pursue an artistic education under local artist James T. Harwood. Young saved money earned as a Salt Lake Tribune engraver to attend the Art Students League of New York between 1899 and 1901, returning for financial reasons[2]. Working for the Salt Lake Herald, Young saved enough money to travel to Paris, France where he studied at the Académie Julian until 1905[3]. In France he decided to focus on sculpture, although his watercolor paintings were also acclaimed. Returning to Utah, Young married Cecelia Sharp in 1907. They had two children, but Sharp died. Young later married Dorothy Weir, daughter of painter J. Alden Weir, and moved to Connecticut in 1931[4]. Young maintained a studio at the Weir estate which has become Weir Farm National Historic Site[5]. Young found local sculpture commissions insufficient to make a living, so he moved to New York City in 1910. Young did, however, keep geographical and religious ties to home. In 1912 he received commission from the LDS Church to make Seagull Monument on Temple Square. Young had long lobbied the church to build the monument, but they didn't find money for it until after he moved his family to New York. He was one of a dozen sculptors invited to compete in the Pioneer Woman statue competition in 1927,[6] which he failed to win. Young notably created Native American statues for the American Museum of Natural History and submitted artwork for 20th Century Fox studios. During the depression he taught for the Art Students League. He also completed a series of bronze sculptures of boxers which brought him international fame. In 1941 Life magazine called him "the George Bellows of American sculpture."[7] Young's sculptures often focused on farmers, machinists, blacksmiths and other workers. Young became associated with the Ashcan School, an art movement which focused on realistic, gritty scenes of everyday life. A Social Realist, Young ennobled the struggle of industrial workers. Characteristic of this theme are "Factory Worker" and "Farm Worker", two sculptures displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The statue of the farmer, a man sharpening his blade, stood at the fair's entrance. Young was especially proud of This Is The Place Monument located at This Is the Place Heritage Park in the foothills of Salt Lake City. Awarded commission to build the monument in 1939 when Young was 62 years old, This is the Place Monument included many sculptures dedicated to the Mormon pioneers. The project proved frustrating for Young, who had to win the contract through an arduous contest. After granted, many of the artistic qualities sought by Young were vetoed by representatives from Utah state government, the LDS Church, and descendants of pioneers. For example, Young wanted pioneer leaders in realistic clothing like they would have worn when entering the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. However, Young's vision of leaders like Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball in suspenders and bloomers was deemed undignified. Instead, pioneer leaders were portrayed in heavy formal overcoats. The monument was dedicated on July 24, 1947, on the one hundredth anniversary of Brigham Young's party reaching the Great Salt Lake Valley[8]. Young died in Norwalk, Connecticut. Young's estate included 320 sculptures and thousands of paintings and sketches. Notes1. ^Handbook of the American Artists Group (American Artists Group (1935) at page 76 (“MahonriYoung…. …was born in Salt Lake City, Utah….”)https://books.google.com/books?id=GcfpAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=mahonri 2. ^Handbook of the American Artists Group (American Artists Group (1935) at page 76 (“MahonriYoung…. …received his initial training at the Arts Students League in New York….”)https://books.google.com/books?id=GcfpAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=mahonri 3. ^Handbook of the American Artists Group (American Artists Group (1935) at page 76 (“MahonriYoung…. …went to Paris, where he remained for several years.”)https://books.google.com/books?id=GcfpAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=mahonri 4. ^ART; At Weir Farm, the Bucolic Side of a Man by William Zimmer, January 23, 2000, The NewYork Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/23/nyregion/art-at-weir-farm-the-bucolic-side-of-a-man.html (“Young married Weir's second daughter, Dorothy, in 1931 and lived at thefarm….”) 5. ^http://www.nps.gov/wefa/historyculture/dorothyweiryoung.htm "Dorothy Weir Young,"National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-03. 6. ^‘‘Exhibition of Models for a Monument to the Pioneer Woman’’ at the Chicago Architectural Exhibition, East Galleries, Art Institute of Chicago, June 25 to August 1, 1927 7. ^Mahonri Young's Sculpture Preserves His Mormon Past," Life Magazine, February 17, 1941, p.76.https://books.google.com/books?id=I0kEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false (“The George Bellows of realistic American sculpture is MahonriYoung….”) 8. ^This is the Place Heritage Park, Statuary Walk, https://www.thisistheplace.org/todays-fun/statuary-walk/?rq=july%2024%2C%201947 (“"This is the right place." A hundred yearslater, July 24, 1947, a heroic-sized bronze sculpture of Young and two of his colleagues wasplaced atop a 60-foot pedestal overlooking the Valley.”) References
Further reading
External links{{commons category|Mahonri Young}}
17 : 1877 births|1957 deaths|American Latter Day Saint artists|Art Students League of New York alumni|Art Students League of New York faculty|Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters|Olympic gold medalists in art competitions|People from Ridgefield, Connecticut|Artists from Salt Lake City|Richards–Young family|Social realist artists|20th-century American sculptors|American male sculptors|Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics|American expatriates in France|Sculptors from New York (state)|Sculptors from Utah |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。