ABSTRACT
This collection of illustrations offers a visual record of Mabel Dodge Luhan's life, as well as photographs of A. A. Brill and reproductions of their letters to each other, with the flourishes of their handwriting and signatures. The images include Mabel in her New York apartment, a painting she made for Brill, her transformation upon arrival in Taos, New Mexico, and Antonio Luhan, the Pueblo Indian who became her fourth and final husband. Not only was Mabel widely photographed herself, as Mabel Dodge, Mabel Sterne, and Mabel Luhan but she also embraced photography as a medium, meeting and purchasing prints from such masters as Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, commissioning photographers such as Laura Gilpin to capture her Taos estate and her beloved Tony, and sitting for portraits by her close friend Carl Van Vechten. Also shown are photographs of her friends, among them D. H. Lawrence and Robinson Jeffers, and pictures that Brill took of her Taos home.
