Lot 149
Mahonri Mackintosh Young (American, 1877-1957). Bronze Elephant Bookend, ca. 1925. Signed "Young" on top left of base. Impressed "Gorham C. 0469 #83" on side of the base. A finely cast bronze bookend in the form of an elephant by Mahonri Mackintosh Young rendered in the round with a beautiful brown and green patina. Mahonri Young was a prominent sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century as well as the grandson of Church of Latter Day Saints leader Brigham Young. He began sculpting animals when he was a child; Mahonri's father gave him clay to model animals when he was recovering from appendicitis. While Young was taught the Neoclassical style at the Academie Julian in Paris and had many colleagues who were Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Young chose to reject all of these styles. Instead, he chose realism, and the subjects he returned to most were boxing, ranch life, Native Americans, laborers, and animals. Size: 5.5" H x 7.125" W x 2.625" D (14 cm x 18.1 cm x 6.7 cm)
Luce Artist Biography: "At the age of five, Mahonri Young modeled his first clay sculptures while recovering from appendicitis. Several years later, he acquired a fifty-cent wood-carving kit and carved a portrait of Julius Caesar, which a visitor to the house described as the work of a 'genius.' He attended an art school in Utah, then worked as a sketch artist for local newspapers to save money to go to New York. He studied at the Art Students League and at the Academie Julian in Paris, where he created bronze statues of urban laborers. Although he spent most of his life in New York, he always considered himself a 'child of the West' and his last major statue was a tribute to his grandfather Brigham Young, the Mormon leader and colonizer of Utah." (source: Smithsonian American Art Museum website)
PROVENANCE: private Salt Lake City, Utah, USA collection
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Item #
197469
- Condition: Very Good. Overall very good save minute casting flaws. Attractive brown and green patina. Signed ""Young"" on top left of base. Impressed ""Gorham C. 0469 #83"" on side of the base. Green felt on underside of base.
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