Education
University of Pennsylvania, M.F.A. in Painting and
Printmaking, 1984
The Boston Museum School, 1976-1978
Vassar College, B.A. in Geology, 1975
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Baseball Paintings, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA
2006 Baseball Paintings, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA
2005 Max Mason: Baseball Paintings, 1985-2005, Martin
Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2003 Landscapes, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA
2003 Paintings, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2001 Still Lives, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia,
1998 A Year in the Studio, Gross McCleaf Gallery,
Philadelphia,
1996 Recent Baseball Paintings, Gross McCleaf Gallery,
Philadelphia
1995 Home and Away, Recent Landscape Paintings, Gross
McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
1992 Recent Work, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
1990 Max Mason: Pastime, Butler Institute of American
Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1989 Baseball Paintings, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
1989 Pastels and Watercolors, Earlham College, Richmond,
Indiana
1986 Max Mason: Landscapes, Gross McCleaf Gallery,
Philadelphia
1981 Max Mason, Contemporary Landscape, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, NY
Murals/Commissions
2003-4 Philadelphia Phillies/ Citizens Bank Ballpark,
Three 10’x 30’ murals, “Philadelphia
Baseball
2002-3 State of Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg,
PA, “Pennsylvania Agriculture, 20 8’x10’ panels
in new entrance facility.
2002 City of Harrisburg, Mural on City Island, “Baseball
on the Island, 15’x150’
2002 Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Mural of Independence
Hall, 22’x 30’, in collaboration with
Michael Webb
2002 Art Unleashed, 50 Dogs for Lower Merion, Main
Line Art Center
2000 Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, 49th and Market, “The
New El, wall 35’x55’
2000 York, Pa., “Muscletown USA, wall ? 23’x34’
1999 Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, 40th and Chestnut, “A
Gateway to University City, wall ? 50’x90’
1999 Philadelphia Free Library, Andorra Branch, Mural,
The Schuylkill Valley
1999 York, PA, “The York Plan, Mural collaboration
with Michael Webb
1998 Philadelphia Free Library, Eastwick Branch,
Mural Collaboration with Michael Webb
1994 All Star Mural, 10th Street Bypass, Pittsburgh,
PA
 Collaborator:
Janine Stern, Public Art Coordinator, City of Pittsburgh
1993 University of Pennsylvania, Penn Club in New
York, Four 4’x15’ Campus Landscapes
1993 United States State Department, Embassy in Cairo
Egypt, Five 4’x6’ American Landscapes
1987 Alliance in the Park: Artists and Artists Collaborate,
The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Collaborator: Simon
Tickell, Architect
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Annual Mid-year Exhibit, 2004, The Butler Institute
of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2004 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2004, Pennsylvania
State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2004 Annual Members Juried Exhibition, Delaware Center
for theContemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2002 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2002, The Susquehanna
Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2000 Zeuxis: Still Life, The Human Presence, Erector
Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1999 Local Color: Selections by Regional Artists,
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown,
PA
1998 December Group Show, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland,
Maine
1998 Annual Small Works Show, Philadelphia Sketch
Club, Philadelphia
1995 Fiftieth Annual Award Exhibition, Cheltenham
Center for the Arts
1993 Figurative Work in Color, Nesbitt Design Arts
Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia
1990 100 for 100, 100th Anniversary Exhibition for
the Graduate School of Fine Arts of the University
of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania
1990 Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: A Juried
Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1987 Public Art Proposals, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia
1986 20th Juried Exhibition, Allentown Art Museum,
Allentown, PA
1985 Philadelphia Landscape Artists, Art in City
Hall, Philadelphia
1984 The Spirit of the Coast, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft,
NJ
1983 Interiors/Exteriors: Ciccariello/Mason, The
Basement Gallery, Boston, Ma
1981 15 Somerville Artists, Tufts Gallery II, Tufts
University, Medford, MA
 Penwith
Galleries Associates Exhibition, St. Ives, Cornwall,
England
Teaching Experience
University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer; Painting I,
2000-present
Drexel University, Nesbitt College of Design Arts,
Lecturer; Drawing, Painting, Design and Printmaking,
1986 - 2000
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Adjunct
Assistant Professor of Drawing, 1993 - 1997
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Instructor,
Drawing, 1995
University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Artist, 1992
Dartmouth College, Visiting Artist, 1989
Earlham College, Visiting Artist, 1989
University of Iowa, Visiting Artist, 1987
University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Assistantship
in Printmaking, 1983-1984
University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Fellowship,
Instructor, Painting I + II
Awards and Commissions
Mary and Constantine Cope Award, Cheltenham Center
for the Arts, 1995
Philadelphia Art Now Bus Shelter Competition Administered
by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Fellowship in the
Visual Arts, 1988
W.A. Rose Fellowship for the Creative Arts, Vassar
College, 1979. Lived and painted in Cornwall, England
Selected Collections
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
U.S. Embassy of Egypt, Cairo
U.S. Embassy of Venezuela, Caracas
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
University of Pennsylvania
Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY |
