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Alice Trumbull Mason

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Alice Trumbull Mason (1904 - 1971) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  Alice Mason is known for Abstract-geometric, graphics.

An abstract painter, Alice Mason was a meticulous worker who ground her own pigments and then mixed her paints, which she placed in carefully diagrammed designs of pure blocks of color. In 1936, she was one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists at a time when that style was not at all well received. As she got older, her work got darker and more muted, but  always had balance of form.

Her husband was a ship's captain who was gone for long periods of time, and she raised two children virtually alone. The early death of her son in 1958 at sea caused her to go into isolation, and she increasingly sought more solitude.

She was of upper class New England heritage with one of her ancestors being the American Revolution painter John Trumbull. Because her father didn't need to work, the family traveled extensively in Europe, and she studied at the British Academy in Rome.

At age twenty, she enrolled in the National Academy in New York and at the Gr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1744 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  42
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Alice Trumbull Mason
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions May 2006 Editors, Art in America Yes
42 Book References for Alice Trumbull Mason
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 103 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1994 Provincetwon Art Association and Museum Provincetown Abstract Painting 1915-1950 From The Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1992 Levin, Gail/Marianne Lorenz Theme & Improvisation Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde
(Exhibition catalog)		 236 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Susan Sheehan Inc American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960 104 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Saint Louis Art Museum The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947 225 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Weinberg, H Barbara The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome 113 No
1983 Lane, John R and Susan Larsen Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1979 Springfield Library & Museum Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections 216 Yes
1979 Yochim, Louise Dunn Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists 297 No
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1977 Whitney Museum Lawrence H Bloedel Bequest Selections and Related Works 56 No
1976 Harris, Ann S/Linda Nochlin Women Artists 1550-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 368 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1966 Editors Who's Who in American Art, 1966 0 No
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1957 Seuphor, Michel Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting 305 Yes
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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