Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971
setName: label: See more items in
content: Alice Trumbull Mason papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Box 1, OV 3)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.masoalic, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized. Personal budget lists and notebooks, the checkbook ledger, and the deposits book have not been digitized as they record routine transactions with no additional information related to Mason's work.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of scattered documentation of Alice Trumbull Mason's career as an artist and her active membership in many art organizations. Included are brief resumes and biographies that provide information about her memberships, exhibitions, awards, representation in permanent collections, and other professional information. Also found here is her Guggenheim fellowship application. Other professional records include scattered exhibition records and records of her work as an officer in the American Abstract Artists group that includes letters to members written by Mason, lists of members, press releases, reports, and letters to her from the vice president, Esphyr Slobodkina. Mason's active participation in other art organizations, such as the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors and the International Association of Plastic Arts, is documented here through reports to members, brochures, newsletters, meeting minutes, and other membership information. This series also includes some of Mason's personal financial records as well as a few legal documents.