alice-mason-art

Prints

Abstract print on paper comprised of two white squares and one white rectangle in the foreground, with black and grey organic lines and forms in the background of each.

Dactyl

British Academy

National Academy of Design

Grand Central Art School

Litchfield, Connecticut, USA

Emily Mason

Jonathan "Jo" Mason

Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-1971) was a pioneer of American abstraction. A writer, painter, and printmaker, Trumbull Mason was also a  founding member of American Abstract Artists. Born Alice Bradford Trumbull in 1904 in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was a descendant of the notable 18th-century American painter, John Trumbull. Growing up she received a formal education in painting in Rome and New York, where she studied under Arshile Gorky. Trumbull Mason had two children in the early 1930s: Jonathan, who passed away in 1958, and Emily Mason, who also became a prominent abstract painter.
Trumbull Mason’s intimate and experimental abstractions began in a biomorphic style and became increasingly geometric over time. She called what became her signature style “architectural abstraction.” In 1944, Trumbull Mason joined Atelier 17, Stanley William Hayter’s historic printmaking workshop in New York City, producing prints that were acquired by institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Throughout her life she remained committed to both making and promoting abstract art. Alice Trumbull Mason is represented by Galerie Lelong in New York City.

Alice Trumbull Mason

American

Anne Leavenworth Train

William Trumbull

Warwood Mason

Abstract print by Alice Trumbull Mason, 1952, etching with aquatint on paper, 16 1/4 x 10 in. (41.3 x 25.4 cm). Abstract print on paper comprised of two white squares and one white rectangle in the foreground, with black and grey organic lines and forms in the background of each.

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The Emily Mason & Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation

Dactyl (ed. 1 of 25)

Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation

Dactyl (ed. 1 of 25), 1952