Mabel Ganson was a rebel from the beginning. Born to wealthy but dour parents in Buffalo in 1879, she spent her teen years being privately educated and exploring her sexuality. Her adult life was ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TAOS —Mabel Dodge Luhan had wealth, status and influence. A widely read columnist for the Hearst papers, she also had four husbands, female lovers and an ...

In 1922, the now-legendary arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan invited the British writer D.H. Lawrence to her home in Taos, New Mexico. A decade later, she published a memoir about the visit called ...

Left: Emil Bisttram, “Taos Indian Woman Plasterer.” Right: Ansel Adams, “A Man of Taos, Tony Lujan, Taos Pueblo.” Although well-regarded as an artistic and spiritual retreat for both established and ...

Rebecca Allan and Laura Kaminsky led a tour of the traveling exhibit Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Allan and Kaminsky commented on ...