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Emily Mason (January 12, 1932 – December 10, 2019) was an American abstract painter and printmaker. Mason developed her individual approach to the Abstract Expressionist and color field painting traditions with her veils of color and spontaneous gestural mark.
- January 12, 1932, Greenwich Village, New York City, US
- Abstract painting
- December 10, 2019 (aged 87), Brattleboro, Vermont, US
Jan 11, 2024 · Growing up surrounded by artists, including Josef Albers, Elaine de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell, Emily Mason was acutely familiar with prevailing movements of the 1950s and ’60s. Bridging multiple genres, including Color Field and Lyrical Abstraction, she developed an intuitive style of abstract painting characterized by vibrant layers of ...
Emily Mason is a contemporary abstract painter best known for her vibrant abstractions which she created though thin layers of pigment. View Emily Mason’s 119 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
- American
Feb 11, 2021 · Comprising twenty-two paintings made between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s, the exhibition “Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings,” at Miles McEnery, is a shrine to that indifference: the quiet...
Feb 7, 2020 · Emily Mason, Who Created Colorful Canvases, Is Dead at 87. Part of a family of artists, she was known for creating abstract works by a process she liked to call “letting a painting talk to you.”
Feb 7, 2020 · Whereas her mother’s paintings often featured highly structured, quasi-geometrical forms, Emily Mason’s vibrant works, generally in oil, explored the varieties of a single color, or the play...
Dec 19, 2023 · The abstract painter Emily Mason who spent decades producing lyrical, vibrantly colorful compositions is getting a posthumous New York show.
