A true female aesthete, MABEL DODGE LUHAN,
an American patron of the arts,was born (d: 1962); Dodge Luhan is
particularly associated with the colony of artists who settled in Taos,
New Mexico. Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan, to give her all her
names, was married four times (the last time to an American Indian), had
countless lovers, was enormously rich, and virtually originated the
idea of “radical chic” by inviting to her salons in New Mexico, New
York, and Italy the sort of people usually excluded from the guest lists
of the rich — labor leaders, homosexuals, revolutionary artists,
Bolsheviks, outré types like John Reed, Margaret Sanger, and D.H. Lawrence.
She was also
aware of being a Lesbian and, more astonishingly still, wrote about it
for the world to see in a memoir, Intimate Memories, published in 1933.
In every way she was fifty years ahead of her time. Mabel Dodge Luhan
died at her home in Taos in 1962 and was buried in Kit Carson Cemetery.
The Mabel Dodge Luhan House has been designated a national historic
landmark and is a historic inn and conference center. Natalie Goldberg
frequently teaches at Mabel Dodge Luhan House, where Dennis Hopper wrote Easy Rider.
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