Mahonri MacIntosh Young
Navajo Watering Place
1896-1948
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Mahonri MacIntosh Young
Navajo Watering Place
1896-1948
Physical Qualities
Etching, 129 × 265 mm. (5 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.360
A grandson of Brigham Young, the founder of the Mormon Chruch, Mahonri Young left Utah in1899 to study in New York at the Art Students League. Soon thereafter, Young moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julien. He returned to the United States as an accomplished sculptor, and spent the rest of his career studying and portraying inhabitants of the Southwest.
According to the Cone family members, Young proposed marriage to Etta Cone while they were both in Paris. She declined his offer.
