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Mahonri Young
Early Life and Family Mahonri Mackintosh Young was born on August 9, 1877, in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He was the eldest child of Mahonri Moriancumer Young, owner of Deseret Woolen Mill inherited from his father Brigham Young, and Agnes Mackintosh. His grandfather, Brigham Young, served as the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and governor of Utah Territory in 1851. Family Background: Young’s mother came from a polygamist marriage in the Midwestern United States. She did not meet her father, Daniel Mackintosh, until she was older than one;…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of Mahonri Young's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
