Alden Mason    Images  |  Bio

Born: 1919, Everett, WA

EDUCATION

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, M.F.A. 1947
University of Washington, Seattle, WA,B.A. 1942

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2011
“Paintings and the Whole Rigamarole,” Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008
“Burpee Garden Revisited: Paintings 1973-1976,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004, 2006, 2007
Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO 2005
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1992, 1995, 2002, 2004
“Heads Up: Paintings, Alden Mason,” Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA 2000
“New Works,” Olympic College Art Gallery, Bremerton, WA 2000
Gordon Woodside/John Braseth Gallery, Seattle, WA 1998, 1999
Meyerson & Nowinski Gallery, Seattle, WA 1996
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada 1965, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1980, 1993, 1996
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 1995-1996
Soma Gallery, San Diego, CA 1995
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995
"Dream Realities: New Work by Alden Mason," Boise Art Museum, ID, traveling to Holter
Museum, Helena, MT, and Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 1994-1995
Bellevue Art Museum, WA 1994
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1993
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1993
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1990
Griffith Gallery, Steven F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX 1990
Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR 1988, 1990
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX 1989
"Alden Mason--First Prints," Wentz Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1989
Koehler Gallery, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 1988
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV 1988
"Alden Mason: A Selective Survey," The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR 1988
"Alden Mason: A Selective Survey," retrospective, Henry Gallery of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (catalog) 1987
"Alden Mason Drawings," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (catalog) 1986
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1986
Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR 1983, 1985
Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 1984
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983
Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle, WA 1979-1980, 1982, 1983
Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO 1982
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY 1981
Kiku Gallery, Seattle, WA 1978
University Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 1978
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY 1974, 1977
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1976
Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975
Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1975
Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1975
William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1975
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR 1973
Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1971, 1972
Gordon Woodside Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1965, 1967, 1969
Gordon Woodside Gallery, Seattle, WA 1962, 1965, 1967
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1965
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1946, 1955, 1962
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1949, 1957, 1958
Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, WA 1957
Contemporary Arts, New York, NY, traveling exhibition 1954
Creative Galleries, New York, NY 1954

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

"Guy Anderson and Other Friends: The Paul I Gingrich, Jr. Collection," Museum of Northwest Art,
La Conner, WA 2010-2011
“Moments: Alden Mason, Steve Klein and Karen Simonson,” Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA 2010
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010
“Souvenirs,” Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005
“Paintings from the King County Public Art Collection,” Gallery4Culture, Seattle, WA 2005
“Seattle Collects 2002,” City of Seattle’s Portable Works Collection, Bank of America Tower,
Seattle, WA 2002
“Northwest Masters,” City Space, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA 2002
“Safeco Collection,” Safeco Campus, Redmond, WA 2002
“First Person Singular,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2001
“Northwest Views, Selections form the SAFECO Collection, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2001
“15th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2001
“Northwest Masters: Paintings from the Cairncross Collection,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts,
Ketchum, ID 2000
“What it Meant to be Modern, Seattle Art at Mid-Century, Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999
“Bumberbiennale: Painting 2000,” Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA 1999
"Safeco Collects: Northwest Art 1976-1997," Jundt Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 1997
”Dealer’s Choice,” Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle, WA 1997
Kamm Collection, California State University, Northridge, CA 1997
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR 1995
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketcham, ID 1995
“Washington: 100 Years, 100 Paintings,” Bellevue, WA 1995
“Figures and Faces,” North Seattle Community College Gallery, Seattle, WA 1995
"Introduction," Soma Gallery, San Diego, CA 1994
“Selections from the Northwest Collection,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1994
Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1994
Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA 1993
The Art of Microsoft, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1993
Northwest Artists from the Permanent of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1993
“ABOUT FACE,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1993
"5th Anniversary Exhibition," The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1992
"44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters, New York, NY 1992
“It Figures: The Human Image in Art,” Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 1992
"Celebrations and Ceremonies," Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991
Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO 1991
National Governors Association Exhibit, Convention Center, Seattle, WA 1991
"Artworks for AIDS," Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle, WA (catalog) 1990
"Views and Visions," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1990
"Northwest x Southwest: Painted Fictions," Palm Springs Desert Art Museum 1990
"41st Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, "American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters, New York, NY 1989
"1989 Northwest Annual," Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 1989
"Painting and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards," American Academy and Institute
of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1989
"Contemporary Survey: A Visible Presence in the Northwest," Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 1988
"School of Art 1975-1988," SAFECO Insurance Companies, Seattle, WA 1988
"West Coast Contemporary," Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 1988
"After Images," The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR 1987
“After Images,” Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 1987
"Focus: Seattle," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalog) 1987
"Northwest '87," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1987
"Documents Northwest: The PONCHO Series," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1986
"Drawing Power: Northwest Invitational Drawing Show," Lynn McAllister Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog) 1986
"Heads," Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA 1986
"25th Anniversary Exhibition," Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR (catalog) 1986
"Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1986
"West Coast Drawing," University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, traveling exhibition 1986
"Bumberbiennale," Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA 1985
"Possibilities: Studies and Other Works," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1985
"Seattle Sampler," Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 1985
County Arts Commission, and Washington State Arts Commission; Seattle Center, Seattle, WA 1985
"Northwest Art from Corporate Art Collections," Seattle Parks Centennial Celebration,
Waterfront Park, Seattle, WA (catalog) 1984
“Color, Color, Color,” Henry Art Gallery at Rainier Square, Seattle, WA 1984
"Olympiad: 1984," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1984
"Northwest Art from Corporate Art Collections," Seattle Parks Centennial Celebration,
Waterfront Park, Seattle, WA (catalog) 1984
"What's Happening: Contemporary Art from California, Oregon, and Washington," Alternative
Museum, New York, NY 1984
"The 38th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, Second Western States
Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (traveling exhibition, catalog) 1983
"An American Tradition: Abstraction," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1982
"Color, Color, Color: American Painting," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA (catalog) 1982
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 1982
"The Washington Year: A Contemporary View - Colorful Romances: A Spectrum,"
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog) 1981
"Washington Open," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1979
"Masters of the Northwest," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1976
"Fourteen Abstract Painters," Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA (catalog) 1975
"The Seattle Show," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 1975
"Art of the Pacific Northwest," National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC (traveling exhibition, catalog) 1974
"Northwest Annual," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1943-1974
"Governor's Invitational Exhibition of Washington Artists," State Capitol Museum,
Olympia, WA 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973
"The 74th Western Annual," Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (catalog) 1973
"Drawings by Contemporary Artists of the Northwest," Henry Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 1972
"Pacific Cities Loan Exhibition," invitational, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand 1971
"West Coast Drawing Invitational," St. Cloud, MN 1971
"The 73rd Western Annual," Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (catalog) 1971
"Drawing Society National Exhibition 1970," circulated by the American Federaton of the Arts,
New York, NY (catalog) 1970
"The Spirit of the Comics," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA; circulated by the American Federation of the Arts (catalog) 1969
"Alden Mason, Robert Freemont and Peter Saul," Palos Verdes Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1967
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, invitational 1966
"Art Across America," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1965
"Northwest Art Today," Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, WA 1962
"Abstract Expressionism in the West," San Francisco Art Institute, CA (traveling exhibition) 1960
"Art USA National," Nordness Gallery, New York, NY 1958

COMMISSIONS

Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA 1988
Seattle City Light Promenade, Seattle City Light, Seattle, WA 1987
Renton District Court, Renton, WA 1982
Portland Justice Center, Portland, OR 1982
Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA 1982
Washington State Senate Chambers, Olympia, WA 1981

COLLECTIONS

Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Alaska Airlines Corporation, Seattle, WA
Alexis Hotel, Portland, OR
Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Betts, Patterson and Mines Law Firm, Seattle, WA
Bogle and Gates, Seattle, WA
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Cairncross, Ragen & Hempelmann, Seattle, WA
Charles B. Goddard Center for the Arts, Ardmore, OK
Cornerstone Development Company, Seattle, WA
Cromwell, Mendoza, Seattle, WA
Dain Bosworth, Minneapolis, MN
Davis, Wright and Jones, Seattle, WA
Data & Staff Service Company, Seattle, WA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA
Harborview Hospital, Seattle, WA
Harsch Investments, Portland, OR
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Hillis, Cairncross, Seattle, WA
Idaho First National Bank, Boise, ID
KING Broadcasting Company, Seattle, WA
KMS Financial Services, Seattle, WA
Lattice Semiconductor, Hillsboro, OR
Mazama Capital Management, Portland, OR
Meany Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Mercantile Bank of Canada, Vancouver, BC
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Miller and Young Law Firm, Washington, DC
Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Nordstrom, San Francisco, CA
Oaks Landing Investment Firm, Portland, OR
Pacific Northwest Bell, Seattle, WA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pease & Doces, Seattle, WA
Perkins, Coie, Seattle, WA
Physio-Control Corporation, Redmond, WA
Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood, Minneapolis, MN
Polyclinic, Seattle, WA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland Justice Center, Portland, OR
Preston, Thorgrimson, Shidler, Gates & Ellis, Seattle, WA
Prudential Insurance Company of America, Los Angeles, CA
Ranier Club, Seattle, WA
Reed, McClure, Moceri, Thonn, Seattle, WA
Renton City Art Collection, Renton District Court, WA
Riddell, Williams, Bullitt and Walkinshaw, Seattle, WA
Safeco Corportation, Seattle, WA
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Seafirst Corporation, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Seattle City Light Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, WA
Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA
Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA
Sheraton Hotel, Tacoma, WA
Shidler, McBroom, Gates and Baldwin, Seattle, WA
Spokane City Art Collection, Spokane, WA
Steve Chase Associates, New York, NY
Stoel, Rives, Boley, Jones and Grey, Seattle, WA
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
Taco Bell Corporation, Irvine, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
U.S. West Communications, Seattle, WA
Warner Brothers Records, Burbank, CA
Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Seattle, WA
Washington State University Art Museum, Pullman, WA
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Washington State Senate Chambers, Olympia, WA
Westin Portland Hotel, Portland, OR
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
Williams, Lanza, Kastner and Gibbs, Seattle, Wa

PUBLICATIONS

Alden Mason at Seattle Art Museum, Preview: The Gallery Guide, April/May 2011, p. 67
Skinner, Tina. 100 Artists of the West Coast II (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA) 2009, pp. 114-115
Art Access, April 2009, Volume 18, #3, p. 5, photograph of artist at Foster / White Gallery
Kangas, Matthew, “Alden Mason,” art ltd., May 2008, p. 23
Gangelhoff, Bonnie, “Mason Works,” Southwest Art, May 2006, Vol. 35, Number 12, p. 76
Mason, Alden, A Collection of Paintings and Poems, HUB Publishing, Seattle, WA, 2004
“Foster/White Gallery,” Art Access, Vol. 13 No. 7, September 2004, p. 36
Row, D.K. “D.K.’s Hot Sheet,” The Oregonian, January 23, 2004, A&E p. 22
Architectural Digest, December 2003, p. 253; photograph of painting in Puerto Rico house
DeVuono, Frances, “Alden Mason at Foster/White Gallery,” Artweek, May 2003, pp. 22-23
Row, D.K., “Alden Mason: Still Painting After All These Years,” The Oregonian, May 17, 2002, p.61
Koppman, Debra, “Previews,” Artweek, May 2002
Row, D.K., “Critic’s Picks,” The Oregonian, May 2, 2002, pp.E1, E3
Hall, Stan, “The Frame Game,” The Oregonian, April 28, 2002, p.E6
Harmon, Kitty, The Pacific Northwest Landscape, A Painted History, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA, 2001
Hicks, Bob, “Laura Russo Celebrates 5 Years,” The Oregonian, June 2001
Hackett, Regina, “New Alden Mason Works Take a Startling Step into the

Shadows,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 2, 2001
Josslin, Victoria, “Alden Mason’s ‘Honeymoon Series’” Reflex, November, 1995, p.10
Hicks, Bob, “Alden Mason’s Squeeze Bottles,” The Oregonian, February, 1995
Ross, Terry, “Quality vs. Quantity,” The Oregonian, February 17, 1995, p.31
Updike, Robin, “Inside Alden Mason’s Head,” The Seattle Times, September 28, 1995, pp.E1, E2
Hackett, Regina, “All Paths Lead to Bountiful Nature at Greg Kucera Gallery,” Seattle PI,
September 8, 1995, p.16
Lindberg, Ted, “Alden Mason: Paintings and Works on Paper,” Preview, October, 1995, p.40
“The Laura Russo Gallery,” The Oregonian, February 1, 1995
Ross, Terry, “Masterpieces at Reed,” The Oregonian, February, 1995
“Alden Mason at The Boise Art Museum,” Reflex, October/November, 1994
Ross, Jeanette, “Outsider: Alden Mason at Boise Art Museum,” Artweek, October, 1994
Duda, S., “Jarring Masons’,” Boise Weekly, August 25-31, 1994, p.15
Gragg, Randy, “Name That Toon’s Grand Opening Promises Animated First Thursday,” The Oregonian,
April, 1992
“Arts & Entertainment: Laura Russo Gallery,” The Oregonian, April 1, 1992, p.C5
Gragg, Randy, “Alden Mason Paints Mixed Perspectives,” The Oregonian, May 12, 1992, p.24
“Alden Mason at Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Reflex, January, 1991
Barcott, Bruce, “A Place for Art,” Seattle Weekly, September 5, 1990, p.45
Hough, Katherine Plake, Northwest by Southwest: Painted Fictions, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm
Springs, CA 1990
Guenther, Bruce, Alden Mason, The Courtship Series, Greg Kucera Gallery, September 1990
Johnson, Barry, “Hard to Resist,” The Oregonian, January 8, 1988, p.F19
Johnson, Barry, “Works of Morris, Mason Color First Thursday Gallery Openings,” The Oregonian,
February 3, 1988
“WW Art Choice,” Willamette Week, February 11-17,1988
Johnson, Barry, “Mason Retrospective a Melding of Styles,” The Oregonian, February 17, 1988
Tarzan, Deloris, “Suffering Artist,” The Seattle Times, June 5, 1987, cover art with article on p. 6
Hackeel, Regina, “Legislators Make Art Experts See Red,” Post-Intelligencer, March 1987
Guenther, Bruce, The Fountain Gallery of Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR 1986
Hackett, Regina, “ Growing Old or Up Isn’t for Alden Mason,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March, 1986
Burress, Charles, “A Touch of Northwest Class at The Claremont,” The Oregonian, July 1983
Guenther, Bruce, 50 Northwest Artists, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1983