Two current exhibits highlighted in the New York Times both include work by the artist Alice Trumbull Mason. The first is a solo show of her Shutter Paintings, which have always reminded me of strip quilts in both composition and ratio. And then there is this reading of the paintings:
“Mason’s edges all wobble noticeably, which adds to the air of instability and fragility, intimating the effects of aging and drinking perhaps but also grief about the tenuous miracle of life.”
The other show mentioned in the article is Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950, at the Whitney, which includes works by Trumbull as well as Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Louise Nevelson, and others.
Alice Trumbull Mason’s “The Saffron Pitch” (1963)
Alice Trumbull Mason’s “Magnitude of Memory” (1962)