Mahonri MacKintosh Young (1877-1957) The Stone Cart inscribed 'To my friend / Donald Shaw MacLaughlan / MAHONRI' (on the base), stamped 'A. Valsuani Cire Perdue' (on the edge of the base) bronze with brown patina 4 1/4in high Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, Munich, Germany. Private collection, Germany, acquired from the above, 2019. Painter and sculptor Mahonri MacIntosh Young was born in Salt Lake City. He was the grandson of Brigham Young who died when he was just 20 days old. Influenced by his father, a skilled woodcarver, Young sculpted in clay and drew from a young age. Deciding to become an illustrator, Young studied drawing under James T. Harwood in Salt Lake before becoming a staff artist for the Salt Lake Tribune and the Salt Lake Herald. Seeing Cyrus Dallin's Brigham Young's Pioneer Monument in Salt Lake in 1947 sparked Young's interest in becoming a sculptor. Young continued his studies at New York's Art Students League under painter Kenyon Cox, and then in Paris at the Académies Julian, Delécluse, and Colarossi where Young moved toward sculpting and etching. 'Young's first bronzes were studies of men working at everyday labors,' such as The Stone Cart. 1 In the sculptural group, two draft horses yoked in tandem pull a wagon carrying a crate of stones along a metal track. A single figure walks alongside the second horse. The horses, with their complex harness system and prominent collars, and the ropes securing the crate are rendered in fine detail. When Young returned to the US, he settled in New York and found success as an artist. He was made an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1912. 1 P.J. Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1973, p. 275.