The first thing I learned about John Mason, who died Sunday at ... That was the basic art-world truth about Mason in the early 1960s, and I got the message long before I met the man.

John Mason, an artist who helped expand the boundaries of what could be done in ceramics by creating imposing wall reliefs and other expressionistic sculptures in a field that had often been ...

Over five feet tall and streaked with a reflective glaze, John Mason ... Nebraska, Mason spent most of his career in Los Angeles and New York, studying ceramics at the Otis Art Institute ...