Known professionally by her maiden name, her work features the landscapes of the Finger Lakes region and residential neighborhoods of Ithaca.
In 1922, Kingsbury joined the École des Beaux-Arts at Fontainebleau in France, where she studied fresco with Paul Albert Baudouin and sculpture and mural composition with Alfred Janniot.
Though best known for her paintings in oil, watercolors, and mural media, Kingsbury also produced several screens in the early 1930s and graphic works throughout her career.
[3] Her regionalist works were the most well received of her career, drawing recognition from mainstream media, such as Art Digest: "New York State landscapes by Alison Mason Kingsbury cast a hushed silence through the room with their panoramic, unpeopled expanse...
[4] Some of her work - in particular The Onion Fields - draws on the legacy of the widely known Mexican muralists in both its style and labor-based subject matter.