Three of Mahonri Young's Recent Cowboy Sculptures

An Embodiment of the Essential Spirit and Character of the Western American Plains

ALTHOUGH the vogue for Mahonri Young's work has spread to Europe, he is essentially an American artist, not only in the types which he portrays but in the spirit and manner in which they are executed. He is a master in many mediums—painting, drawing, marble and bronze. The West has always inspired him greatly, his most felicitous paintings and drawings having been the result of long and ardent pilgrimages to our Western plains. There is. in his work, nothing of the pretty—nothing of the sentimental, nothing of the tricked-out-toplease. About a year ago Paul Daugherty, the American painter, pointed out that Young would make an ideal sculptor to design a great soldier's monument. Such a monument would indubitably be vigorous, masculine, true in sentiment and far removed from the mawkish and "pretty" monuments—there are no other words to describe them—so frequently seen in our American cities. This artist has of late been devoting himself to etching, in which medium his democratic feeling and fine sense of character have been conspicuously evident. Mr. Young is about to return to the United States from a long visit to Europe. It will be interesting to see what subjects have occupied his attention there and to note what changes have manifested themselves in his vision and manual technique