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Roy M. Mason
American
Mason was raised on a farm and was encouraged in his art talent by his father who worked as an engraver and who also taught his son the skills and love of outdoor sports.
His art education consisted of only one correspondence course, which he later referred to as his "formal art training." He worked with his father in an engraving business, and then became head of the art department for a Philadelphia lithograph company while maintaining his own studio for painting.
A close friend of artist Chauncey Ryder from 1926, Mason often painted with him in New Hampshire.
He became a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, the Salmagundi Club, the American Federation of Arts, the Philadelphia Water Color Club, Grand Central Galleries and an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design.
In 1959, he and his wife, Lena, moved to LaJolla, California, where they lived the remainder of their years.
Born in Gilbert Mills, NY on March 15, 1886, Roy Martell Mason was primarily self-taught, but received criticism from Chauncey Ryder. As well as hunting and fishing scenes, he also did illustrations for magazines including Collier's, True, and Reader's Digest.
While maintaining a studio in Batavia, New York, he began spending long periods in southern California in the 1930s and later lived there until his death in La Jolla on Aug. 13, 1972.
Memberships:
National Academy; Salmagundi Club; American Watercolor Society.
Exhibitions:
National Academy of Design, 1930; Salmagundi Club, 1930, 1931 (awards); Art Institute of Chicago, 1941; American WaterColor Society, 1956 (gold medal); Laguna Beach Art Association, 1960-61; Los Angeles County Fair, 1961.
Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago; Illinois State Museum; Haggin Museum (Stockton); MM; Toledo Museum.
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