A retrospective of prints by Alice Trumbull Mason from 1945 to 1965 is on view at the Susan Teller Gallery through Saturday, November 16, which would have been the artist's 109th brithday.

As a young woman Mason travelled extensively and studied art in Florence and Rome. By 1927 she was in New York City where she worked with the academic painter Charles Webster Hawthorne at the National Academy of Design (and in Provincetown), and, as she moved to Modernism, with Arshile Gorky at the Grand Central School of Art. In 1936 Mason was a founding member of the America Abstract Artists Group. Her first one-women show was held at A. E. Gallatin’s the Museum of Living Art at New York University in 1942. A retrospective was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973.

In 1944 Mason began working at Stanley William Hayter’s New York Atelier 17, where Sue Fuller was a master printer. In the 1940s, she also worked on a press borrowed from Letterio Calapai and later made prints with Harry Hoehn, whose studio was next to hers at 149 East 119th Street. (Another neighbor was Carl Holty, in whose studio, in 1947, Joan Miró worked on his mural for the Terrace Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati.) Mason continued to make prints (intaglios on zinc and woodcuts) throughout her career. White Burden, 1946, an intaglio by Mason is currently on view in Drawings and Prints, Selections from the Permanent Collection, including abstract works from women artists of Atelier 17, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 27 through November 17, 2013.

Also on view is a selection of prints by Women of Atelier 17, NY, including works by Minna Citron, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Mary Heinz, Fannie Hillsmiht, Kett, Louise Nevelson, Anne Ryan, and Mary Thomas.

Link to site:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_ExhList.pl