Emily Mason (1932–2019) was an American abstract painter, daughter of painter Alice Trumbull Mason, who was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists in New York. Born and raised in New York City, Mason was exposed to art at a young age and developed her individual approach to the Abstract Expressionist and Color Field movements, with her distinct veils of vivid color and lyrical, luminous abstraction. Mason was married to fellow painter Wolf Kahn. The couple spent time between New York and Venice/ Rome as her work had earned her a two-year Fulbright grant. Mason's career began to flourish in the 1960s. She was awarded her first solo exhibition in 1960 at the Area Gallery in New York City, and in 1979, she was invited to teach painting at Hunter College where she worked for the next three decades.