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Winifred Mason was born on 22 June, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an African-American jeweler in New York (1912–1993). Discover Winifred Mason's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 June 1918
Birthday 22 June
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Date of death 1993
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Nationality United States

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1912

Winifred Mason (January 31, 1912 – 1993) was an African-American jeweler who was active in New York during the 1940s.

She worked primarily in copper, and was inspired by West Indian cultural traditions.

She is believed to be the first commercial African-American jeweler in the United States.

Under her married name, Winifred Chenet, she also sold jewelry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Winifred Mason, was born on January 31, 1912, in Brooklyn, New York.

1924

Chenet was born on October 14, 1924, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

After marrying, Mason spent much of her time in Haiti.

Under her married name, Winifred Chenet, she sold "Voodoo-inspired" jewelry there.

She also operated a store in New York selling Haitian art.

1934

Mason received a BS in English Literature in 1934, and went on to receive a MA in education from New York University in 1936.

1939

She had served as a vice president of their Brooklyn chapter in 1939.

1940

In the early 1940s, Mason taught youth metalworking skills at Junior Achievement, where she met Art Smith.

After graduating, Mason hesitated to begin her career as a teacher, and she worked for a while as a teacher for the WPA and later as a crafts instructor at the Harlem Boys Club, but she chose another way as her life career.

Mason received a grant from the Rosenwald Fund to "gather folk material and basic art patterns used by the West Indian Negro and to express these feelings in jewelry."

This research included time in Haiti, where she met her husband, Jean Chenet.

Her first piece of jewelry appeared in 1940, and it was a pendant in bronze, copper, and silver.

It had to be of great interest among her friends and soon she began to get orders for the similar pieces.

Mason never repeated her works and every piece she made was unique.

When she could not find a proper instrument to use in her work, she made it herself.

After working on jewelry at home, Mason opened and maintained a studio in Greenwich Village in the early 1940s.

Jewelry from this studio was sold at national department stores like Lord and Taylor.

Much of the jewelry was custom-made, and clientele included Billie Holiday.

By the late 1940s, there had been ten exhibitions of her jewelry including one-woman shows in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Among her employees was Art Smith, who went on to found his own studio and become one of the first significant African-American jewelers.

1943

In 1943, she received her first order from an exclusive department store on Fifth Avenue.

1948

Mason married Jean E. Chenet in Manhattan, New York, on September 13, 1948.

1963

She escaped from Haiti following the murder of her husband by the Tonton Macoute in 1963, and returned to the United States.

In 1963 her husband was murdered in Haiti by the Tonton Macoute.

Winifred Mason Chenet escaped and returned to the United States.

Mason Chenet was later active in championing other female black artists.

1990

She was honored by Girls Friends, an organization for black women, in 1990.

1993

Mason Chenet died in 1993.