Emily Mason was born in New York City in 1932. She graduated from Manhattan's High School of Music and Art and attended Bennington College in Vermont before receiving a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union in New York City. In 1956, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study painting at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice, Italy. Mason has been a committed abstract painter since the beginni
...see more »ng of her career. She is well known for her luminous abstractions in oil. She has had numerous exhibitions, including solo shows at David Findley Jr. Fine Art, New York City; MB Modern, New York City; Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York City; Walker-Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, New Jersey; and Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island. Her work is represented in a variety of public and private collections. A book about her work, 'Emily Mason: At the Heart of Abstraction' by David Ebony was published in 2002. Mason lives in Vermont and in New York City, where she teaches painting at Hunter College.« see less
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