About

History

Emily Mason (1932—2019) was an American abstract painter and beloved mentor and teacher. During her prolific fifty-year career, she also tended to the posthumous career of her mother, Alice Trumbull Mason (1904—1971), a pioneer of American abstraction.

In 2018, Emily Mason established a not-for-profit foundation to support the legacy of Alice Trumbull Mason, while advancing opportunities in the arts to traditionally under-represented artists for generations to come. Following her death in December 2019, the Foundation broadened its mission to include the legacy and artwork of Emily Mason herself and in December of 2020, became known as the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation.

Values
The Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation embraces the fearlessness, creativity, and resilience of its artists. As an institution advancing two under-recognized artists, the values of diversity, equality, and inclusion are integral to our existence. Truly embracing these values requires the Foundation to be assertive and innovative in the face of ever-present implicit and explicit structural biases, both within and outside our own organization.