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Emily Mason
So Slight a Film, (Lehman Brothers Art Collection), unique signed oil on paper
1978

Name: So Slight a Film, (Lehman Brothers Art Collection), unique signed oil on paper
Brand: Emily Mason
Price: 32500 USD
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Emily Mason So Slight a Film (from the Lehman Brothers art collection), 1978 Oil on paper Abstract Expressionist painting Signed and dated 'Emily Mason '78' bottom right in pencil Frame included (held in original hand made museum frame with plexiglass and VIART label, the art consultancy that brokered the sale to Lehman Brothers) Provenence: Acquired from the famous sale of the Lehman Brothers Art Colledtion Measurements: Framed: 22.5 inches x 22.5 inches x 1.5 inches Artwork 14.5 inches x 13.4 inches This exquisite early (1978) Emily Mason oil on paper was acquired in 2009 from the sale of the legendary Lehman Brothers Art Collection - a coveted collection of blue chip art that had to be sold when the company famously dissolved. It has not appeared anywhere on the market since 2009 - 14 years ago. It is hand signed on the front, and held in a hand made wooden museum frame with UV plexiglass, bearing the original label on the back, bearing the unique inventory number from the Lehman Brothers collection (LB-858-A-0-02-82). More about Emily Mason “When I start a picture I like to use the medium as directly as I can . . . [this] puts me in a state of mind which avoids pictorial constraints. I try to use paint for its brilliance, transparency, opacity, liquidity, weight, warmth and coolness. These qualities guide me in a process which will determine the climate of the picture. All the while I work to define spatial relationships, resulting in certain kinds of places. I cannot name them but know intuitively when they appear.” — EMILY MASON (1932-2019) Born and raised in New York City, Emily Mason’s art education began in the studio with her mother Alice Trumbull Mason, a founding member of the American Abstract Artists. A graduate of New York City’s High School of Music and Art, she attended Bennington College and The Cooper Union. In 1956, she was awarded a two-year Fulbright Grant to paint in Venice, Italy. There, she studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti where she first experimented with blotting and transferring paint onto the surface of the canvas. In 1957, at the Ponte de Rialto, Mason married painter Wolf Kahn (1927-2020), with whom she had two daughters. Since she emerged on the Tenth Street gallery scene in 1960 with Area Gallery, Mason has exhibited regularly in New York City. In 1979 she was awarded the Ranger Fund Purchase Prize by the National Academy of Design. For over 30 years, Mason taught painting at Hunter College. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections. In 2006, George Braziller published Emily Mason: The Fifth Element, a comprehensive treatment of her work by David Ebony and Robert Berlind. In 2015, University Press of New England released her second monograph, Emily Mason: The Light in Spring, featuring prints and paintings since 2005, edited by Ani Boyajian with text by David Ebony and Christina Weyl. Mason passed away on 10 December 2019, the birthdate of her namesake, Emily Dickinson. -Courtesy Miles McEnery

Creator:

Emily Mason (1932 - 2019, American)

Creation Year:

1978

Dimensions:

Height: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)Width: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)

Medium:

Graphite,Oil

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

Period:

1970-1979

Condition:

Excellent condition. Ships in the hand made museum frame with plexiglass.

Gallery Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1745213942132

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Emily Mason

Emily Mason was born in New York City in 1932. She graduated from New York City’s High School of Music and Art and studied at Bennington College for two years before attending and graduating from the Cooper Union. She spent 1956–58 in Italy on a Fulbright grant for painting, where she studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice.

During Mason’s two-year stay in Italy she married the painter Wolf Kahn, whom she had met earlier in New York. Mason and Kahn’s daughter, Cecily Kahn, is also an abstract painter, as was Emily Mason’s mother, Alice Trumbull Mason, a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group in New York.

Mason spent more than six decades exploring her distinctive vein of lyrical, luminous abstraction. Her paintings executed in oil are distinguished by a sense of intriguing intimacy combined with uncompromising, though gentle, intensity. They evince a sense of structure within open, luminous space and juxtapose robust color harmonies with vivid contrasts that create an engaging optical vibration.

Robert Berlind said of the artist in Art in America, “Mason works within the improvisational model of Abstract Expressionism, though notably without angst or bravado.”

Mason exhibited steadily throughout her career since she emerged on the Tenth Street gallery scene with multiple exhibitions at the Area Gallery in New York City in the 1960s. In 1979, she was awarded the Ranger Fund Purchase Prize by the National Academy. She taught painting at Hunter College for more than thirty years. Her work has been included in numerous public and private collections.

Emily Mason: The Fifth Element, a comprehensive treatment of her work by Art in America associate managing editor David Ebony, was published in 2006 by George Braziller publishers. A second monograph, Emily Mason: The Light in Spring, was published in 2015 by the University Press of New England.

Mason died in December of 2019 in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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(Biography provided by Miles McEnery Gallery)