Emily Mason was a process-based abstract painter who has until recently had been overshadowed by her artist mother, Alice Trumbull Mason (founding member of American Abstract Artists) and artist husband, Wolf Kahn. Mason graduated from the Cooper Union and studied in Venice on a Fulbright grant. Her first solo exhibition was in 1960 at the Area Gallery in Manhattan and later shows in the 1980s and 1990s began to propel her career and recognition. Mason taught at Hunter College for more than 25 years, and recent surveys of her own mode of lyrical abstraction have helped more firmly establish her place in art of the second half of the 20th century. Mason's paintings are included in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art, and Wheaton College.
