| Show : 7www7Ther - J i ' - S - r- - :t - :4744 )1 111 - - ''6t Al" - ' - '3:- -' -- ek --- 4 1 )41r-t4- rv -- :" 4 ( 0 1 - --4 4 0 0 4 -- ' - 1 -- i - drawings "M M Young" t I ': ily William - ' t a been serepted he was not too sure of himself jiow the name is inscribed more boldly with the feeling of calm certainty that it will be looked upon by future'generations in the earns light as the great names of the past A friend asked the sculptor one time smiled Mehoriri naMe and asked quietly: "Do last you know Michelangelo's name? Do You know Rafaers last name? Do you know Rembrandts last name?" The friend had to admit that he did not-Timplication of the question however was clear In years to come the first name Mahonri will be in the same category as all these other great first names Made Small Bronzes Back in New York he settled down is a married man to raise a family and make His wife was a name in the art world Cecelia Sharp of Salt Lake City an seemplished pianist He made many small men and prize fighters bronzes—laboring An exbeing outstanding among them tremely versatile artist he also turned out a great many drawings etchings and the paintings His native state Tecognized 'rising young artist when he was come statues of Joseph missioned to do and Hyrum Smith for the temple grounds Later he did the Seagull monument which as the only monubecame ment erected In honor of a bird Another one of his early works is a relief 56 feet long and four feet high along the east wall of the Deseret gymnasium It is called he Outspoken and Amiable Many people think the name Mahonri Is in the Book of Mormon and for this reason was picked by Brigham Young for one of his sons Artist Mahonri says the name is not in the Book of Mormon "The story in our family as to the origin of the name" he says "is that the people asked the prophet Joseph Smith the name of the man referred to as 'the brother of Jared' and the prophet replied ' 'Mahonri Moriancumer" He believes this story is the correct one Among his' friends be is known simply as "Hon Young" And "Hon Young" is not only a great artist but an outspoken amiable personality who at 73 is as vivacious as a youngster and talks entertainingly on a vast number of subjects - "' - j - "Field Day" In 1929 a number of years after the death of his wife Mahonri went to Hollywood for a "flier" in the movies not as an actor but as sculptor of figures to be used In a picture starring Paul Muni entitled "Seven Faces" The movie didn't amount to much but the sculptures did One thing that came out of this episode d statue of Joe Gans the prizefighter Hailed as one of the finest things of its kind ever done it is now In Madison Square Garden New York International honors came to him in 1932 when he won first prize for sculpture at the Olympic games in Los Angeles competing with sculptors from all parts of the NV He negold friends and acquaintances lected to learn 'before the death of his mother several years ago the exact location of the house in which he was born but believes it was on East 1st South His however earliest recollection is of the "Factory" where he lived as a child The 'Factory" was the Deseret Woolen Mills which was located in the lower part of Parleys canyon in what is now the Salt Lake The buildings Country club golf course were near the place where the 20th East road dips throngh Parleys gully Recalling this place the sculptor says: "Situated in the narrow valley which continued Parleys canyon between two branches of the stream it was a place to dream of and regret There were farmers and a farm there were workmen and work- tng women at the mill: there were animals and birds in and around the barn and in all directions glorious landscapes There was clay in the cut bank of the ' dugway' Some of this I was given to play with and I modeled birds and animals as any child ik '''' N' ''i - '44: ' ''N A1 4 is ev06100A AttPluelk ' III) ' - - In New York where be had gone to make his fame and fortune after schooling in Faris people asked bluntly where his par-til- ts could have found such a name He lays people of all religions including Turks and Hindus have at one time or another asked him its origin After some time the artiet realized that the unusualness of the name was an asset to him He then started signing his draw ings etchings and pieces of sculpture Mohoriri - Young This cnntintiod for a number of yeara when one day his son Mahonri Sharp Young a writer said: "Dad you've got to put the 'M' back in your tame I intend to use the Mahonri'" So for a number of years the artist signed his things Mahonri M Young and still uses this as his official and legal signature One day in 1920 when he was down in the Hopi country making drawings and studies for the Hopi Indian grourto to in the Museum of Natural History New York he was scribbling a note on a piece of He signed his first' pink ruled paper name left out the middle initial and started the Young but got only as far as the "Y" when he stopped looked and decided that For a might be a pretty good signature short time then the signature was "Mahonrt His Crowning Achievement "This Is the Place" monument was the crowning achievement of Istahonres career It was something he had dreamed of for years All the time he was away in Paris and New York he remained devoted to ' ' Cottage on C St- - family moved to town It consisted of the mother Mahonri his two brothers 'Waldemar and Winfield Scott Young and their widowed grandmother Ellen Nightingale Mackintosh They bought a cottage on C al which the mother occupied until her death and only recently was sold After Mahonri finished the eighth m in a encris La ter he and his Jack- the-aSearsdepartment of The Salt Lake Tribune He says now the oldest bring employes of c1 n tn- ' ::s it - i 4 U h - - IsLk 114v ' 1 I l''''')- - 5 After atudy In Europe turned to Ness York lolling re- here be began utak- Mohnen-- ) 'k ' - ' 1 t ' ? 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' (1 :' C- ' '$- 111‘--- 1- Mahonri Voting enjoys ranting back to Salt Lake his birthplace and associating ssith old friends and acquaintances Ile likes hi ride through the Utah countryside stopping to sketch and paint I I: 4 '410- - ' I r t ' t j ji i ' s 11 P f - 4- "'i lei '' ' '' I' : - $: f i n the monument coninussion last fall is still convinced that the finish cf 11i some ot the bronzes is deteriorating believes the green scaly substance should be brushed off a new patina placed on and the bronzes covered with a protective coating The sculptor envisions the MOr11- rlent as lasting for all time: the bronzes of Brigham Young Heber C Frnh1l and W'ilford Woodruff looking out over the valley for as long as there is a valley It should be at least as permanent as En s:gn peak Gone to Nature fahonrt has little truck with modern art Frank Jewett 'Mather Jr says that Mahonri "regards modernism who h he has sympathetically studied rather as a flurry to be avoided than as a rmolution to be joined" And he act fl'trg ro am ready to bet that the future prophet may justify s hat may t1 an !(t'ntrit ily Mahonri himsPit siyN "I v a ys to nature for M V subject matter but I learned mv art from the Md I belie e all the other great orea Too 'of tee men fIghting un it r tte gre i t I 1 1 tt 1 1 l ' —1 t '' 1'' 1' ' ' 1 ' l i A i' ' 44ro o $ '''''-"1- 4'-'1 : '" " ' ' : 4 '1 '4Pkyouc0 t It' tt l'" i 4 '1 1 - -- I - ' 1 si $' ' tit !$ — smseeei-eA-i4w1$-4i401 hat ttahng know bet of the nth of )1r Vonng "This Is the l'!ae" monument U hit h Ntand at 4 the mouth el 1:Inigralism anym metimIdng Salt Lalse awl It lb: maAle prcwyi phs!1 tri:eihis of tho stAis boi7'arne w:101' flowcrs tth tihirrl's htcr hfe rel hofore the iconument rmo'nths Maintained NVhen Mrs kits ir:' - 1 : ' : ''' 1 ' V N crCP'' : 'tr'41'i-:- L' 1 -- - N - - 2 ' - - -- "f — - " 4 'N - I or - '1k k 4 4 t'4'6141041"iN 'AvliVr - 11 ':! :ILm ''Si!x - i1 107111 1t1'- - - tw :If od '- - 4 V1V('4:?!11:-'--- 7 - i - of f l‘ !In 1'1' ff t!1 rr t5 pl Ih7-40- 1renH dr!-!o-r 81 1 cif t' T! Then I el5 h 3 f l'e - - 'r it ier r SALT I 1st pr sid- 11 t t 77 413 thr:r inany y :s h o:-ti Ot !'r 21 often drops into tlitiCentury club has Mien a membi r for many years in I! n Rt York ith old fricnils including Gifford Be3L an 'Vv k Brooks Ar thhald M Leish and Frank Dodd the Fuld:shot- - A favorite luncheon spot Is here he ottim heots Hal Burroughs Barbottis and Waldo Mdgloy artists w hat also had from Utah Mahorin is a member of the American Acalemy of Arts and Irilers Nat:oral Academy Mrt N-- '- h:O-in- e In two n v hii h he tt chat i VrI and thp Fhe the overloolong Mahonn has Itiipt a part when he 'is in town but be preliirs to he at the old country home in Ilvige fold Cfnn Avtwre has son and family now live or with his daughter Mrs Ohver Lay ard her farru!y in Stratton corm ! :of - 4 :7 t ne--- e n1 large apartment idf 1' '' yell One of the her untinw!Y Pill' Just tAn f 'This Is the txtrrmily Large Apartment Young Frulptor maintained a Now ram4roy pink famous old park of this for Ms (win ma-Oe- 4 i ' f':' - - 't banner of rrndernism tf merely following fAshions An most of them sre jlist follow crs When 110 conies t( Utah there is rnthtng Mahonri likcs better than riding thrnli2h the f nu ntrystk stopping as often as the dm cr fie says he never mt perivit tn slzetch or rea)l knew t hos Utah lands ape until he start-- i rnakirg regular visits tr) the state with his sec f' 4' -- — - 4 $ 1 4' ' k ' 111 4 1 4' 11" ''''' 4 r :t - 1 t s T ' ' 4' I 1 I ' s'4 '' fl i"' le'- A '1) ii ''' k 4 im 11! t' f's I '' A 7--- - 1 1 11 10$ ' I ' ' -' i : Do ''' A p A P - ' :'? t' Alt i - i ' 1 4 - f'V''4 '' ':4'11' we Pe ''0 --- - i - e''' "4- Ik' il'ISi -- ' : - "i i - - '''' 1 t or ' - 17 t ! - : t 1 r ' - ':4- r I i il ' ' - " ' ' ' - - t ' 17 f si:'v tIr N ' tf-- e i''' t ' - A $: ' I ' - 7 's 4 ' '' '' I L '' - ': i i Most artists will admit for Washington was a Aremendout outpouring of creatwos energy particularly for a man nearly 70 years of age Actually the monument represented Hie work of a much longer period as the sculptor started making sketehes in If136 On the monument are represented 74 persons and Ill living objects Pespite denials made by Rn &tidal of J ' ' Hates to Be Rushed He has Mahonri hates to he rushed found his on tempo and in following it turns out a prodigious amount of work Everything on "This Is the Place" monu- ment was modeled in a little over 18 months by the sculptor with the help of one as- instant and some strictly mechanical help such as plaster casting and enlarging Shortly thereafter he also had made a full- - ' ' ' '' t '' I f Utah and the Idea of perpetuating In bronze and stone the memory of the Mormon pioneers and those who came before them greatly appealed to him Throughout his life he had admired his grandfather Young and had collected pictures Brigham of him-- and information pertaining to his life Mahonri has a vast amount of historical and other information—tucked away in his memory Some of thia he uses in hiswork all of which is authentic and "right" Those who have tried to catch him up on some historical detail have learned that he is a hard man to argue with The same holds true of other details for he is a keen close observer of nature ' " I - $ f 1 - $ -- S - ' ' ' : - - - ' f ' - THE V 4 1 I ' 2M 1- ? ' Ma-Min- ' ' ' i 1 Mahonrt had little formal schooling and sometimes gives one the impression he considered even this a waste of time He says "I went through the public schools hating' It all the way" There was one teachers however to whom he owes a debt of grati- tude—a Miss Alta Wiggins Although she couldn't draw she taught him one thing was that invaluable—"wheo you draw a straight line look at the point where the line is going to end not at the point of imnbonre It was only a few years ago that he realized the name "Mahonri" alone would be unique as a signature Since then all of his work has been signed by the one word Look at the bronzes on the great "This Is the Place" monument at the mouth of Emigration canyon and you will see the name "Mahonri" Inscribed at the bottom You also will see this one name on the Carrara marble statue of Brigham Young unveiled recently in statuary ball national capitol Washington D C "'—"'""'''''"'n'tlf"-t- v drat rô itil than just that it tells the story of the de- vefrpmnt tf a- great- artist The- - first "NIL M signature Young" was placed a little uncertainly the artist had not yet - 1 ' '4'4"'' 1 on r i - ti tling" Scornful of artists who think the acquisition of degrees is important tfahond says 'If you know what you want to do go straight and do it don't go in for education and culture life will give you both" L41 life-size- world Inspired by Whittling To amuse his son the father carved things from wood 116tahonri says now "I have often thought that my modeling in clay was directly Inspired by his whit- Y" Settled :7 ''Ir Air- - would" your pencil" - A iN 4 i' world-renowne- d a'stgro - '4t 1 life-siz- Enjoys Coming Back v - imme-diale19- whYJe111“10P15 things onlywith11ia- 'first '1 ' ' - ' - The Tribune are himself Jack Sears and A G Mackenzie Charley INorthington also still living came to the paper shortly was after they did All the time Niahonri dreamed-o- f a could he for cent every saving trip to Pariau His art education started under J T Harwood one of the first of the great Utah Lee Greene Richards Al Wright artists and Jack Sears also were students of Harwood at that time In 1899 he left for New York and later went on to Paris where Lee Richarda also was studying He entered the Julian Academy of Art — In France and after' arriving Italy he saw and studied the great works of art he had seen only in catalogues back And it was there that his own home career as sculptor and artist was launched Patrick C ft me ' - ' ''N dr s 4 ' has carved himself a position in American art Late in August 1177 Mahond Marian- sumer Young and his wife Agnes Mackintosh YOung were getting ready for the chriatening of their first child who wu born on the ninth of that month "What are you going to name the boy f" asked the father "Why Wahonri° of course" she said "That's all right But you'll name him 'Moriancumer' over my dead body" So they compromised by naming the child Mahonri Mackintosh Young The baby was taken up to the Beehive house to-seen bythis graldfather-BrigliaYoungwho was then in bed with the illness which soon took his life The great pioneer leader had asked about the boy who probably Was the lut grandson born during Brigham's lifetime now a Mahonri Mackintosh Young world-fame- d sculptor painter and etcher recalls that as a boy he was rather about his odd first name Some of his teachers who he said had been sent out from the east "to save us Mormon boys for America" found the name strange if not downright funny Trouble With Ills -'Nettie Years later when he first started attracting attention as an artlitMahonri still felt the name was a little too strange for most eyes and ears Boor hues 81Fynoedun his ' - 144 7 An outspoken amiable personality- - 'lion' Young - c- ' !' 10 et ' 1 - ( 4-- 'N ' - - '' ( - - ' I ' '44141416"'"711"1"444"""" r: - it - 0 N - - i- if i f - - c--- 4 -- 0 t '4 -- 4 te - " 7 J - ' :: r ' ' i0 N Vr tw I- t - - i :'-0 qrom AmrAr t ' - i - '11-- ' i r 0 - - ' - ' S"ril LAKE - pm anti niom-i- TRIBUNE 4 lat l ' |
