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John Young-Hunter (American, 1875 - 1955) Mabel Dodge Luhan's Dog. Oil on canvas. c1945. Signed "J. Young-Hunter," on stretcher bar, verso. 17 x 25 1/4 in. (432 x 641 mm). Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Young-Hunter was a portrait, figure, and landscape painter with a highly aristocratic upbringing in England and a career that reached to the American East and Southwest. He was raised with privilege and extravagance among the culturally elite of London, and close family friends included John Singer-Sargent and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. John received much recognition for his portrait painting in England, and his paintings were exhibited in the National Tate Gallery in London and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. From 1900 to 1913, he exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1913, he traveled to the United States, pursuing his fascination with American Indians whom he had seen in Buffalo BillÆs ôWild West Showö performances in London. In 1917, he first visited Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico. Cutting his connections to the European art world, he settled in Taos in 1942 and became a part of the colony of artists around Mabel Dodge Luhan. He had a home and studio on the eastern edge of town and replaced his painting of society portraits with Indian subjects, landscape, and still life. (Courtesy: AskART). ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images: 
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