THE HUDSON REVIEW
Karen Wilkin, Winter 2022

As a more varied diet, the past season also offered little-known works by a postwar sculptor, a surprise from a modern master, responses to a special location by young contemporaries, and an impressive number of exhibitions by women, both those working currently and from the recent past.

HIGHBROW MAGAZINE
Sandra Bertrand, 14 February 2022

Like any relationship, achieving harmony comes with its challenges. In the Whitney Museum’s exhibition, Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930-1950, 26 artists, many who remain overlooked, met the challenge head-on – pushing the evolution of abstract art in this country into the public consciousness.

THEGUIDE.ART
Lisa Yin Zhang, 22 January 2022

Alice Trumbull Mason believed abstraction was the “true Realism”—figuration and depiction could never match its potential to get to the heart of things. In “Shutter Paintings,” on view at Washburn Gallery, 16 paintings give way to stunning permutations of feeling, atmosphere, light and color.

THE ART NEWSPAPER
Benjamin Sutton & Gabriella Angeleti, 14 January 2022

More than five decades since the Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a posthumous retrospective devoted to the late abstract painter and printmaker Alice Trumbull Mason, the artist’s work is being revisited...

ART & OBJECT
Dodie Kazanjian & Marley Marius, 12 January 2022

Overlooked in the canon of art history, Mason was a leader in the boys’ club of abstract art in the New York art world during the 1930s to ’60s.

ART & OBJECT
Barbara MacAdam, 10 January 2022

In a notable revival, the life and career of the late dedicated abstractionist Alice Trumbull Mason has been guided into light through a focused exhibition of sixteen Shutter Paintings at Joan Washburn Gallery...

ART IN AMERICA
Jackson Arn, 7 January 2022

“Like ordinary everyday experience, except about two inches off the ground”—that’s the Buddhist scholar D. T. Suzuki explaining what enlightenment feels like, but he might as well be talking about the late style of Alice Trumbull Mason, the subject of a quietly superb exhibition at Washburn Gallery

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Roberta Smith, 6 January 2022

A poignant gallery show of the artist’s “Shutter Paintings” is paired with an exceptional Whitney exhibition of the forward-looking prints that she and her contemporaries made in days gone by.

THE NEW CRITERION
James Panero, 14 December 2021

Alice Trumbull Mason (1904–71) is an artist deserving of reevaluation. A new monograph published by Rizzoli, and an exhibition now on view at Washburn Gallery, should help in that rediscovery.

FLAUNT MAGAZINE
Sam Franzini, 05 November 2021

Flaunt spoke with Steven Rose, the director of the Mason Foundation about the new exhibition.

HYPERALLERGIC
Cassie Packard, December 2021

Alice Trumbull Mason, a painter, printmaker, and vocal proponent of non-objective art who cofounded the American Abstract Artists group in 1936, is among the figures who are getting their due with the reevaluation of the prevailing — typically white, male — narrative of American abstraction.

THE BROOKLYN RAIL
Nina Wolpow, November 2021

Organized by Sarah Humphreville, Senior Curatorial Assistant, the title of the show borrows from the name of a print by the Connecticut-born artist Alice Trumbull Mason, who was a student of Arshile Gorky’s in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

WIDEWALLS MAGAZINE
Balasz Takac, 02 November 2021

Titled Labyrinth of Forms after Alice Trumbull Mason’s work in the exhibition, this survey tends to underline the sense of discovery that informed these women to develop a striking visual language and propose innovative conceptual and technical solutions.

THE NEW YORKER
Johanna Fateman, November 2021

Borrowing its name from a 1945 aquatint etching by Alice Trumbull Mason, this exhibition at the Whitney features abstract works on paper from the museum’s collection, all made by women between 1930 and 1950.

THE GUARDIAN
Julianne McShane, 13 October 2021

In a new exhibition, the female abstract artists between 1930 and 1950 whose work was sidelined at the time finally get their space in the spotlight.

ARTFIX DAILY
04 October 2021

Labyrinth of Forms, a title drawn from an Alice Trumbull Mason work in the exhibition, alludes to the sense of discovery that drove these artists to establish a visual language reflecting the advances of the twentieth century.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Will Heinrich, 17 September 2021

The latest welcome challenge to the old heroic-male-painter story of abstraction comes largely from the Whitney’s permanent collection, with works by 26 artists, including the titanic Alice Trumbull Mason

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Jerry Saltz, 1 September 2021

he modest show “Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction” is a much-needed step toward setting the record straight. Here is an exhibition of mostly smaller works on paper made in America by women.

THE BROOKLYN RAIL
Karen Chernick, July 2020

A daughter mines her mother’s archive to create the first monograph of this abstract painter.

HYPERALLERGIC
Bridget Quinn, 15 June 2020

Emily Mason remembers her mother saying, “I’ll be famous when I’m dead.” Though fame may not be quite secured (yet), the artist’s first-ever monograph acts as bulwark against forgetting her legacy.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Roberta Smith, 30 April 2020

The first monograph of a painter’s painter brings a jolt of new insight and a confident show of her works’ mindfulness and beauty.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Will Heinrich, 27 February 2019

A full booth at the Washburn Gallery is dedicated to the painter Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-1971), with a focus on drawings and paintings from the 1940s, whose surfaces are broken into rhythmic showers of narrow shapes.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Holland Cotter, 17 March 2017

“Emergent Form,” 1945. An American painter and printmaker, Mason (1904-1971) studied in New York with Arshile Gorky and went through geometric, then biomorphic phases, which she combines in this insouciant piece

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Holland Cotter, 12 December 2008

There can't be many paintings by Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-71) still in circulation. She was not prolific; her active career was relatively brief. But you can see at a lingering glance how good an artist she was in this expansive little survey of mid- and late-career work.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Holland Cotter, 19 March 1993

Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-1971) was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, a group formed in 1936 to establish abstract art -- which at that time was scorned in this country

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Holland Cotter, 25 June 1982

Other shows of interest this week: ''Alice Trumbull Mason, Emily Mason: Two Generations of Abstract Painting'' (Washburn Gallery, 42 East 57th Street): Mother-and-daughter exhibitions are pretty rare in art, but then, how many painter-mothers have had daughters who also took to the brush?