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Alice Trumbull Mason, pioneer of American abstraction, edited by Elisa Wouk Almino ; foreword by Emily Mason ; essays by Marilyn R. Brown, Will Heinrich, Meghan Forbes, Thomas Micchelli, Christina Weyl, Elisa Wouk Almino

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Alice Trumbull Mason, pioneer of American abstraction, edited by Elisa Wouk Almino ; foreword by Emily Mason ; essays by Marilyn R. Brown, Will Heinrich, Meghan Forbes, Thomas Micchelli, Christina Weyl, Elisa Wouk Almino

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alice Trumbull Mason

Nature of contents

bibliography

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1138715976

Responsibility statement

edited by Elisa Wouk Almino ; foreword by Emily Mason ; essays by Marilyn R. Brown, Will Heinrich, Meghan Forbes, Thomas Micchelli, Christina Weyl, Elisa Wouk Almino

Sub title

pioneer of American abstraction

Summary

A groundbreaking artist, Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-1971) was one of the earliest painters of the twentieth century to embrace abstract painting in America. Mason's early paintings have been compared to those of Gorky, Kandinsky, and Miro, and in 1936 she became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and one of its leaders in the promotion of abstract work by artists such as Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Piet Mondrian, and many others. Mason was a true artist's artist whose efforts helped lead to the great movements of later twentieth-century art, such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Post-Modernism, and Conceptual Art. Alice Trumbull Mason features essays that illuminate and contextualize the artist's multifaceted work and personal life through her paintings, prints, poetry, and letters. The book reveals the full life story of a seminal abstractionist, making a sound argument for adding her to the annals of great twentieth-century artists

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