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Emily Mason

Emily Mason (1932 - 2019) was active/lived in New York, Vermont / Italy.  Emily Mason is known for Abstract form-protean shape painting.

Emily Mason is an instinctive colorist and as such, is drawn to the same vocabulary that other colorists have used, extemporizing as she goes along.  Her abstractions are rich with areas of layered, saturated color contrasted with delicate, translucent washes and glazes that resemble watercolor, with recessions and advances, push and pull, with monochromatic planes interrupted by fissures and crevasses of other colors, flurried with small rains of brushstrokes, scumbled, rubbed, scraped.  The boundaries of her protean shapes can seep into each other, rippled where one image slips imperceptibly into others with usually no hard and fast demarcation, no defined edges or clear lines but the transition is accomplished nonetheless.  The fluidity, however, is gently but firmly structured, locked into place, into Mason's version of dynamic equilibrium. Often, only two or three colors dominate a canvas but a whole rainbow has been requisitioned in the making of it,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6382 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Facts about Emily Mason

   Publications  Book References:  4
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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Emily Mason
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions June 2003 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art & Auction Talk of the Trade May 2001 Editors Yes
ARTnews Reviews May 1997 Editors, Artnews Yes
4 Book References for Emily Mason
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 David Findlay Jr. Fine Art Emily Mason: Recent Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
14 Yes
2006 Dantzic, Cynthia Maris 100 New York Painters 224 Yes
2006 Ebony, David Emily Mason: The Fifth Element 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
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