Although he maintained strong ties to his home state, Young lived and worked in New York, France, Italy, and southern California. He associated with such luminaries as Leo Stein, who took him to Pablo Picasso's first exhibit in a Parisian furniture store; Alfred Maurer; Paul Manship; Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; and Robert Henri and the Group of Eight, principals of the Ash Can School of American realism. It is with this movement that Young is represented in most art textbooks. He also helped organize the International Exhibition of Modern Art, which introduced European modernists to the American public.

A master of all the tools of his trade, Young drew, painted, and produced award-winning prints as well as sculptures, some of which are still housed in major American museums. At the prestigeous Art Students League in Manhattan he taught, over the course of his career, every subject in the curriculum.

This is the first comprehensive biography of Mahonri Young. Accompanied by an impressive array of color and black-and-white illustrations, it constitutes a fitting tribute to his contributions to a national repertoire, as well as to his own religious and cultural heritage.

Thomas E. Toone, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, is a professor of art history at Utah State University and the author of Mahonri Young: His Life and Art, his first book. He is the recipient of a USU Honors Program Teaching Award and a Marriner Eccles Foundation Grant, among other honors.