Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos: Bohemian Legends, 1900-1950

Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2000. Cloth, 152 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "In December of 1917, Mabel Dodge Luhan, a wealthy patron of the arts, arrived in the very rural community of Taos, New Mexico. She arrived with an emotional need that drove her to be a focal point and a catalyst in the New Mexico art community. Although she died in 1962, she is still a controversial figure in Taos, where her spirit lingers in her house; now a Bread and Breakfast frequently used for artists retreats. Her personal artistic expression is found in the books she wrote, but she is best known for the amazing role she played in drawing painters, writers, and other artists to Taos and Santa Fe. 'Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos' gives a brief biography of Mabel and of many of the most famous people whose lives she influenced. The people covered in this book include Charles Lummis, Adolf Bandelier, the Taos Society of Artists, Alice Corbin Henderson and William Penhallow Henderson, Witter Bynner, Spud Johnson, Andrew Dasburg, D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence, Dorothy Brett, and Georgia O'Keeffe. This book also contains historical information about the culture of Taos and Santa Fe from 1900-1950, weaving together the people and the places in Mabel's world." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Taos Mountain and Taos Pueblo; New Women of Modernism; Rediscovery of an Ancient Land; An American Anomaly: New Mexico at the Turn of the Century; Los Ochos Pintores: The Taos Founders; Ritual and Redemption: Power of the Land; Santa Fe Renaissance; Santa Fe Writers' Colony; Talons for Tallent: Portrait of Mabel Dodge Luhan; Mabel's House: Architecture of Passion; D. H. Lawrence: The Red Wolf Trail of Taos; Spud Johnson: The Laughing Horse; Flowering of O'Keeffe; Carmel and Taos: Autumn of the Mountain; Photographic Credits; Bibliography.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.