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Frank Mason Obituary
PEACHAM - Frank Mason, artist and beloved instructor at the Art Students League of New York for 57 years, died June 16, 2009, at the age of 88. Recognized by the Knights of St. John of Malta for his paintings on the life of St. Anthony of Padua which hang in the church of San Giovanni di Malta in Venice, Italy. He is survived by his wife Anne, sons Arden Mason and Crispin Connery, and hundreds of devoted students and artists. Frank and his wife spent their summers at their Peacham home. Funeral services will be held at Grace Church, 802 Broadway at 10th Street, New York City, June 27 at 11a.m.
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Jeff Freedner
June 22, 2009
My sincere condolences too Anne, sons Arden Mason and Crispin and all of the Mason family. With Frank's passing the world has lost a great painter, teacher, and humanist . My best memory besides all the crits I have on my paintings, which I cherish and still use to learn from, is his laugh, that huge infectious laugh. How he would slap you on the back with his huge hand. the action of this would usually send me forward a few feet. Frank had this ability to make one see, to the light affect, and the action and beauty in the world and to love painting. In a life what more can one ask for, to bring love, light and to touch so many souls with his energy and spirit.
Rest in peace, Frank Mason.
James Carroll Lambert
June 20, 2009
To those who never new him, the void that is left in my heart and in the hearts of so many other former art students by the passing of this wonderful man is too enormous to describe.
I wish to express my sincerest condolences to Anne, to Arden and Crispin, and to the rest of Frank's family in their time of sorrow.
I first became aware of Frank Mason, the artist, in December of 1973 when I was a high school art student in Lafayette, Louisiana, far from the New York art world. In my high school's library I was entranced by an article about Frank Mason’s art which appeared in an issue of American Artist magazine. If I remember correctly, the article was titled, "Allegiance to the Old Masters." Never was a title so accurate. I could not have known then that my adolescent daydream of some day studying with this 20th century Old Master would come true in 1993 as a student at the Art Students League of New York.
I sat literally and figuratively at the feet of this “Old Master”, this "Renaissance Man” for a decade. And it was during those years that I became aware of Frank Mason as more than simply a great artist and teacher, but as a man of great religious faith, a warm and gregarious man whose infectious energy and boisterous humor left everyone who knew him in awe.
Everyone who witnessed Frank Mason in Studio 7 in the Art Students League of New York or in Harry’s barn near Stowe, Vermont every June, have those memories to diminish the void left by his absence in our lives. The enormity of describing Frank Mason, painter and teacher, whom we were privileged to know and witness to those never so privileged will be a difficult challenge. Mr. Mason’s passing can be measured more by the lives that were never privileged to know him. Those lives are somehow emptier than those of us mourning his loss. All of us who counted Frank as a mentor and friend have many treasured memories to fill the void. If only everyone had had that wonderful privilege.
Frank Mason lectures at the Art Students League of New York
June 19, 2009
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