Artist Signatures

Mahonri MacKintosh Young

Mahonri MacKintosh Young (1877 - 1957) was active/lived in New York, Utah, Connecticut.  Mahonri Young is known for Portrait and figure sculpture, Indians.

Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Mahonri Young is best known as a sculptor and painter of religious subjects and in New York City for sculpture and paintings of of boxers and laboring people.  In America he was one of the early sculptors of genre figures, that is everyday people going about their everyday lives.

He introduced these social realist subjects in 1904, and this focus on non-lofty subjects has been perceived as a threat to the Beaux Arts style that had been prevalent because of the European academic training of the dominant sculptors such as Augustus Saint Gaudens. However, this new realism of Young's, inspired by his exposure to the French peasants in the paintings of Jean-Francois Millet, did not have wide-spread popularity until the 1930s.
Young was a grandson of Brigham Young, immigration leader of the Mormons to Utah, and as a boy he began sculpting with clay from the canal banks by his house. He was further inspired to sculpt when Cyrus Dalling came t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8985 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 88 auction lots for Mahonri MacKintosh Young (of which 77 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 1 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 5 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Mahonri MacKintosh Young as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Mahonri MacKintosh Young in 3 of its research Essays. Mahonri MacKintosh Young has 12 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Mahonri MacKintosh Young available:    Cyrus Dallin,  Gutzon Borglum,  Max Kalish,  Augustus Saint-Gaudens,  Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington,  Bessie Onahotema Potter (Keyes) Vonnoh,  John Edward Costigan,  Maynard Dixon,  Adolph Alexander Weinman,  Edward Berge,  James Swinnerton,  Paul Dougherty,  J Alden Weir,  Herbert Haseltine,  Grant Wood,  Edith Barretto (Stevens) Parsons,  Yasuo Kuniyoshi,  Malvina Cornell Hoffman,  Birger Sandzen,  Jules Eugene Pages,  Worthington (Thomas) Whittredge,  Warren Eliphalet Rollins,  Conrad Buff,  Howard Russell Butler