Nicolai Fechin, Portrait of Mabel Dodge Luhan, 1927, courtesy the Anschutz Collection

We're thrilled to announce that the Harwood Museum of Art has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation in support of the exhibition Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West and its catalogue. Organized by the Harwood Museum of Art in collaboration with the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the exhibition will be on view at the Harwood Museum of Art May 21-September 11, 2016. From there it will travel to the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York (Mabel Dodge Luhan's birthplace) and to at least one other venue.

   This unprecedented exhibition, co-curated by scholars MaLin Wilson-Powell and Lois Rudnick, focuses on the life and times of one of the early 20th century's most significant but under-recognized cultural figures: Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962). Luhan drew to Taos, New Mexico a diverse group of the period's most important intellectual and artistic voices from all manner of creative practice, igniting stimulating discourse and a cross-cultural exchange of ideas and putting Taos on the national and international map of the avant-garde. Works by many of these masters - such as Marsden Hartley, Andrew Dasburg and Georgia O'Keeffe - will be exhibited alongside the Pueblo and Hispano art that inspired their modernist sensibilities.
   The Henry Luce Foundation was established in 1936 by the late Henry R. Luce, co-founder and editor in chief of Time, Inc. Through its American Art Program, begun in 1982, the Henry Luce Foundation has distributed over $150 million to some 250 museums, universities, and service organizations in 47 states, the District of Columbia and internationally.