Marie Mason, Deerfield Beach Bridge, oil on canvas, 48 by 80 inches. Signed lower right.
Born in Brooklyn, New York Marie Mason moved to Hialeah in 1951. Mason grew up in a family of painters, both parents and her sisters were artists. In Miami Mason painted several large murals for the Arthur Godfrey room at the Vagabond Club on Biscayne Boulevard. She moved to Deerfield beach in 1960 and to Pompano Beach in 1964. That year the Gold Coast Shrine Club commissioned Mason to paint larger murals of the old historic wooden bridges that spanned the Intercoastal waterway in Palm Beach and Broward County. The murals were presented to the Club on January 6, 1964. Mason was adept at black-light paintings, a technique that converts an ordinary tropical oil painting, when a black light in turned on, into a captivating moonlit scene. The Oyster Bar on Chokoloskee Island had a twelve-foot mural by Mason in the bar that charmed patrons when the lights were turned off. Moon and stars would come out. Mason did murals for private homes in the Broward, Dade County area from1951 to her death in 1990. Born: 1907, Brooklyn, New York. Died: October 4, 1990, Pompano Beach. Exhibits: Deerfield Beach Historical Society, January 26, 2002. Directory: Listed in the Miami Beach City Directory in 1957 as mural artist with a studio at 706 N.E. 79th Street.
