A white cabinet with mirror door from the Mabel Dodge Luhan house Dennis Hopper occupied in Taos, New Mexico. The white cabinet features blue hand-painted trim and hand-painted border around the mirror. There is a spiritual postcard stuck in the mirror and several pieces of magazine clipping and a Polaroid photo in the cabinet.

Now a hotel, the Mabel Dodge Luhan House was built in 1918 by Antonio Lujan. Mabel Dodge (a wealthy patron of the arts from Buffalo, New York) left New York City to settle in Taos with Lujan. Notable artists, intellectuals, and luminaries spent time there (Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, Carl Jung, Georgie O'Keefe, and others) and the house served as a retreat and melting pot. Hopper acquired the property upon completing production of The Last Movie (Universal Pictures, 1971) and proceeded to plant himself there, having learned of the unique community while making Easy Rider (Columbia Pictures, 1969). In 2010, he was laid to rest at the Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Taos.

23 x 20.25 x 10 inches

PROVENANCE Property from the Life and Career of Dennis Hopper;