Sally Stockhold

Mabel Dodge Luhan, In Taos, “Tony introduced me to peyote....I introduced him to money”

From “myselfportraits, ode to icons” Series
Hand-colored archival pigment print
Edition of 6 + 2 APs
Sally Stockhold © 2009

Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) Heiress, socialite, writer and art patron. Having lived in Paris, London, Florence and New York, Mabel discovered Taos and moved there in 1919. After shedding her third husband, she married Tony Luhan, a local Pueblo Indian and established an artists’ and writers’ colony in Taos. Together they added to and designed what became a 16-room Pueblo-style mansion, housing guests such as Georgia O’Keefe, D.H. Lawrence and Ansel Adams. Tony, a mellow fellow, encouraged Mabel to develop a “new consciousness” with the use of peyote and meditation. Mabel wrote several memoirs, the most poignant being Edge of Taos Desert, describing her first year in Taos.

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