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Al Held in Al Held: Italian Watercolors + An Interview + An Essay. Ed. Maarten van de Guchte. Exh. cat., Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign, 1993, p. 119. Robert Storr. "The Big 'A': Robert Storr on Al Held." Artforum (October 2005), ill. p. 31 (color installation view Exh. New York ...
Al Held has 30 works online. There are 2,425 paintings online. Licensing. If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press ...
Al Held was an American artist best known for his complex cube like structures he painted in brightly geometric forms. He studied art at the Art Students' League in New York and Paris. In the 1950's he returned to New York and began painting in an abstract expressionist manner. « We’re not going to get rid of chaos and complexity. but we can find a way to live with them. » Al Held
Al Held: American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1928–2005. Jacksonville Beach, FL: J. Johnson Gallery, 2006. MacDonald, Dan. "Abstractionist's Final Painting Finds a Home at the City's New Downtown Public Library." Florida Times-Union (January 12, 2006). Sandler, Irving H. "Al Held (1928–2005): A Maverick in the New York Art World."
AL HELD THOUGHT BIG and painted accordingly. Never more so than in the last years of his life, which ended this past summer, at the age of seventy-six. Among the scrappiest and most ambitious members of the second-generation Abstract Expressionists, Held was also the first to move decisively beyond AbEx’s attenuating conventions toward a bold, sharply contoured approach that harnessed the ...
THOUGH AL HELD’S PAINTINGS are literally big, they have been painted with a monumentality which makes them seem even larger. They look like details cropped from an immensely larger whole which continues beyond the canvas. A bulky simplified facade will have been truncated with enough left to suggest what the absent end would have looked like.
29 de jul. de 2005 · Al Held, an American painter widely recognized for his often immense geometric abstractions, died on Tuesday at his home in Todi, Italy. He was 76. He was found in his swimming pool, but his ...
