Frank Mason
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Frank Mason is an internationally renowned artist whose work extends from portraiture to figure, genre, landscape, still life, and murals. Over the years many of his paintings have received public recognition. Mason was awarded the Cross of Merit, first class, by the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of St. John of Malta following dedication of his eight large paintings on the life of St. Anthony of Padua, permanently installed in the 11th century Church of San Giovanni di Malta, Venice. Three murals on the history of the Saudi Arabian navy were completed for the King Faisal Naval Academy, Jiddah, Saudi Arabia in 1980.
Many of Mason's portraits are publicly displayed including Col. Earl "Red" Blaik at the West Point Military Academy; Concita Sintron at the Concita Sintron Museum, Lima, Peru; the Hon. Averell Harriman, American Embassy, London, Bishop John J. Wright, Mt. Mercy College, Pittsburgh, PA; Coach Wallace Wade, Duke University, NC; Thomas Wolfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Prince Giacchino Colonna of Venice, Italy, at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Mason exhibits widely, both here and abroad. Active in the New York art scene, he is a member of New York Artists Equity, the National Academy Museum, the American Artists Professional League, the Salmagundi Club, the National Society of Mural Painters, and the Royal Society of the Arts. He is well known for lectures and painting demonstrations at the Art Students League where his works were featured in the "Mostly Mason" retrospective at the American Fine Arts Gallery in 1993.
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