Editing Taos art colony (section)

===Mabel Dodge Luhan===
[[File:Mabel Dodge Luhan - Van Vechten.jpg|thumb|''Portrait of Mabel Dodge Luhan'', [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1934|upright]]

Many artists were drawn to Taos due to the presence of [[Mabel Dodge Luhan]], a wealthy heiress from Buffalo, New York{{sfnp|Luhan|1987|pp=120, 291}} who had run a prominent [[Salon (gathering)|art salon]] in [[Florence, Italy]], and [[Manhattan, New York]], before settling in Taos in 1917. After both divorced their spouses, Mabel Dodge married a [[Pueblo people|Pueblo]] native, Antonio Lujan, and built a house. She spelled her married name "Luhan" as it was easier for her friends to pronounce.<ref name=CG>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectorsguide.com/ts/tsfa14.shtml |title=Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos NM, Legendary connections have happened in this house |year=1995–2011 |publisher=Collector's Guide  |access-date=2021-08-11}}</ref><ref name=TU/>

While in the Southwest, Luhan carried on the tradition of the European salon in its newest of iterations. For decades, she invited artists, writers, and people from other disciplines to be inspired by Taos and each other. Among them were [[Ansel Adams]], [[Georgia O'Keeffe]], [[Alfred Stieglitz]], [[Nicolai Fechin]], author [[D. H. Lawrence]] and his wife, [[Frieda von Richthofen]]. Artist [[Dorothy Brett]] came to Taos in 1924 with her friends D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen and later permanently settled there.<ref name=CG/>

[[Georgia O'Keeffe]] settled in New Mexico in the Mabel Dodge Luhan era, but mostly kept her distance, to Mabel's annoyance.. She stayed in one of Mabel's houses in Taos in the summer of 1929 with [[Rebecca Strand]], [[Paul Strand]]'s wife, painting the country around Taos and getting to know the country. According to [[Calvin Tomkins]], in a 1974 interview, "She rather liked Mabel Dodge Luhan—was amused by her, even when Mabel was at her bullying worst. Mabel and [[Dorothy Brett]], the painter, and [[Frieda Lawrence]], who had settled near Taos after [[D. H. Lawrence]] died, in 1930, carried on a running three-cornered feud. They had all idolized Lawrence, and each considered herself in some way his true muse—a situation that reached lunatic heights during their protracted squabble over Lawrence’s ashes. To prevent Mabel from stealing and scattering the ashes (as she claimed Lawrence had wished), Frieda finally had them mixed with a ton of concrete and formed into a block." The block remains on the [[D. H. Lawrence Ranch]] above Taos.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/03/04/the-rose-in-the-eye-looked-pretty-fine Georgia O’Keeffe’s Vision] by Calvin Tomkins, ''The New Yorker'', March 4, 1974 Issue, accessed 5/29/2018</ref>