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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

Author
Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971
Published
New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Additional Creators
Almino, Elisa Wouk, Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971. Selections, Mason, Emily, 1932-2019, Brown, Marilyn, 1951 April 26-, Heinrich, Will, Weyl, Christina, Forbes, Meghan, and Micchelli, Thomas

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Contents
Life and art / Marilyn R. Brown -- Painting motion from stillness / Will Heinrich -- Abstraction and the American abstract artists / Marilyn R. Brown -- The print connection / Christina Weel -- A dedicated poet / Elisa Wouk Almino -- "My mind is full of ships" / Meghan Forbes -- From universal reality to the forever now / Thomas Micchelli.
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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ISBN
0847866998 (hardcover)
9780847866991 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Endowment Note
Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs
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