开创性艺术家爱丽丝•特朗布尔•梅森（Alice Trumbull Mason，1904-1971年）是20世纪最早接受美国抽象绘画的画家之一。梅森的早期画作被拿来与高尔基，康定斯基和米罗的画作进行比较，1936年，她成为“美国抽象艺术家协会” (American Abstract Artists)的创始成员之一，也是协会中推广Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt和Piet Mondrian等画家的抽象作品的领导人物之一。梅森是一位真正的艺术家中的艺术家，她的努力推动了二十世纪后期艺术的巨大发展，例如抽象表现主义，波普艺术，后现代主义和概念艺术。

《爱丽丝•特朗布尔•梅森》中的文章通过她的绘画，版画，诗歌和信件阐明了这位画家的多方面的作品和个人生活，并将她的作品和生活置于其背景下考虑。本书展示了一位具有深远影响的抽象派画家的完整人生故事，并为将她加入20世纪伟大的艺术家的史册提供了合理的论据。

A groundbreaking artist, Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-1971) was one of the earliest painters of the twentieth century to embrace abstract painting in America. Mason's early paintings have been compared to those of Gorky, Kandinsky, and Miro, and in 1936 she became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and one of its leaders in the promotion of abstract work by artists such as Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Piet Mondrian, and many others. Mason was a true artist's artist whose efforts helped lead to the great movements of later twentieth-

century art, such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Post-Modernism, and Conceptual Art.

Alice Trumbull Mason features essays that illuminate and contextualize the artist's multifaceted work and personal life through her paintings, prints, poetry, and letters. The book reveals the full life story of a seminal abstractionist, making a sound argument for adding her to the annals of great twentieth-century artists.