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Mahonri M. Young
Lyme Art Colony
American, (1877–1957) In Lyme: c. 1925
Pioneer social-realist sculptor, Young was the grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young. His subjects included laborers and boxers. He also favored Western genre subjects and first visited the Southwest in 1912. Among his best-known public work is "This is the Place" monument, 1947, at Emigration Canyon, Salt Lake City.

Young was also recognized for his drawings, prints and paintings. He taught at the Art Students' League in the early 1920s, where he was an instructor of sculpture, drawing and etching.


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