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In 1904, Luhan married her second husband, Edwin Dodge.Between 1905 and 1912, Edwin and Mabel lived near Florence at her palatial Medici villa, the Villa Curonia in Arcetri, where she entertained local artists, in addition to Gertrude Stein, her brother Leo, Alice B. Toklas, and other visitors from Paris, including André Gide.
Mabel Dodge Luhan was born into a wealthy family and was well-educated in the arts. In the 1910s, she became well known for the salon-style gatherings at her New York City apartment. Her short marriage to painter Maurice Sterne brought her to New Mexico in 1917, where she soon bought the property near Taos, and sought to recreate the salon ...
According to Calvin Tomkins, in a 1974 interview, "She rather liked Mabel Dodge Luhan—was amused by her, even when Mabel was at her bullying worst. Mabel and Dorothy Brett, the painter, and Frieda Lawrence, who had settled near Taos after D. H. Lawrence died, in 1930, carried on a running three-cornered feud. They had all idolized Lawrence ...
Sterne was a wealthy society hostess and arts patron who had taken up residence in Taos and who was to marry Tony Lujan (stylized Luhan by Sterne), a Native American from Taos Pueblo, thus becoming Mabel Dodge Luhan in 1923. [3] Traveling via Australia, then to San Francisco, Lawrence and Frieda arrived in Taos in mid-September 1922. [3]
Socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan arrived in Taos in 1917 and brought "creative luminaries" to the area, including Carl Jung, Georgia O'Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Wolfe, Willa Cather, Ansel Adams, Thornton Wilder, and Aldous Huxley. [7] Sites. Ernest L. Blumenschein House; Eanger Irving Couse House and Studio—Joseph Henry Sharp Studios; Nicolai ...
Following her divorce from Strand, James moved to Taos, New Mexico where she fell in with a group that included Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Brett, and Frieda Lawrence. [2] [unreliable source?] In 1937 she married William James, a businessman from Denver, Colorado who was then operating the Kit Carson Trading Company in Taos. She remained in Taos ...
In November 1904, Dodge married art patron and writer Mabel Dodge Luhan, then known as Mabel Ganson Evans. Their unconventional marriage is described in her autobiographies Intimate Memories and European Experiences. The couple also appear in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Mabel Dodge Luhan Maurice Sterne ( Latvian : Moriss Šterns , 1877 or 1878 [ a ] – July 23, 1957) was an American sculptor and painter remembered today for his association with philanthropist Mabel Dodge Luhan , to whom he was married from 1916 to 1923.