Alden Mason

(American, born 1919, died 2013)

Northwest artist and teacher Alden Mason (1919-2013) created paintings and murals characterized by their inventive figures and expressive forms. During his life, his style moved from abstract to figurative and back again.

Born in Everett, Northwestern Washington, Mason received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. He went on to teach painting at the University of Washington from 1949 until 1981. His paintings are in many museums, including the Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Museum of Northwest Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Milwaukee Art Museum. He had solo shows at the Seattle Art Museum in 1986 and 2011, as well as a solo exhibition "Alden Mason: Fly Your Own Thing" at the Bellevue Arts Museum in 2021.