Galerie Lelong

About the Gallery
Since 1991, Galerie Lelong, New York, has championed a diverse roster of contemporary artists from throughout the world. Led by Mary Sabbatino, Vice President and Partner, the gallery has pioneered the community both in presenting a balanced roster of male and female artists, and artists from the Global South. The gallery’s programming is noted for its political acuity and museum-quality exhibitions that include contemporary sculpture and installations, as well as its work with artists to help develop large-scale public art commissions beyond the gallery’s walls. In tandem with the gallery’s artists who present works that examine the human condition and collective consciousness, Galerie Lelong. demonstrates its commitment to social justice and good citizenship through charitable initiatives and collaborations.

Founded in Paris in 1981 by Daniel Lelong, Jacques Dupin, and Jean Frémon, the gallery in New York opened in 1985 and moved to its present ground-floor location in Chelsea in 2001. Galerie Lelong is a member of the Art Dealers’ Association of America, the most esteemed organization of art galleries in the United States.

About the Presentation
Galerie Lelong will present work by Alice Trumbull Mason in a solo presentation at Independent 20th Century. The presentation of paintings by Alice Trumbull Mason marks Gallery Lelong’s inaugural public showing of her work. Focused on paintings created between the late 1950s and the 1960s, the presentation highlights a period within Mason’s oeuvre marked by a renewed formal rigor, as increasingly hard-edged forms, sharpened geometry, and spatial economy came to define her compositions. As these developments emerged, Mason established a professional relationship with the influential dealer Richard “Dick” Bellamy, whose program at Green Gallery helped introduce the nascent language of Minimalism and other new tendencies in postwar American art.

This presentation also marks the return, over five decades later, of selected paintings to the site of Mason’s most comprehensive institutional recognition: a 1973 posthumous retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Despite Mason’s exacting approach and burgeoning professional relationships during these last decades of her life, her work from this period remains comparatively under-studied. By revisiting this pivotal moment, the presentation seeks to broaden art historical understanding of Mason’s creative output and to reconsider how her work stood in dialogue with the changing formal priorities of the 1960s.