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Rich in history, authentic in architecture, The Mabel Dodge Luhan House has been a center of Taos arts and education for nearly 100 years. Join us and experience the rustic and relaxing ambience that makes the Mabel Dodge Luhan house an artistic salon of the Southwest.
Mabel Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan (née Ganson ; 26 février 1879 - 13 août 1962) est une riche protectrice américaine des arts, particulièrement associée à la colonie d'art de Taos (en). Enfance et éducation
Utopian vistas : the Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American counterculture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Rudnick, Lois Palken; Wilson-Powell, Malin, eds. (2016). Mabel Dodge Luhan and Company: American Moderns and the West. Museum of New Mexico Press (published in association with the Harwood Museum of Art). ISBN 978-0890136140.
The property on which the Mabel Dodge Luhan House sits contained a four-room adobe in 1918 when it was purchased for $1,500. Antonio Lujan supervised a crew from the Taos Pueblo who renovated and expanded the structure to roughly its present state.
Mabel Dodge Luhan was born into a wealthy family and was well-educated in the arts. In the 1910s, she became well known for the salon-style gatherings at her New York City apartment. Her short marriage to painter Maurice Sterne brought her to New Mexico in 1917, where she soon bought the property near Taos, and sought to recreate the salon atmosphere in the budding art colony.
Every fall The Taos News features honorees exemplifying “Tradiciones” or the traditions of Taos. This year the “Raíces” (roots) section featured the Mabel Dodge Luhan House. Writer Teresa Dovalpage captured its essence in her opening sentence: “Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991, the Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Now in its third month, the Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company exhibition lives up to “a tour de force of epic proportions.” The show takes up most of the Harwood Museum of Art with its 140 art pieces and over 40 literary works and material culture objects. With a background in art of the Southwest, I have considerable expertise. Imagine my pleasure at making new discoveries. Taos, New Mexico, a ...
