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Al Held

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Al Held (1928 - 2005) was active/lived in New York / Italy.  Al Held is known for Geometric abstract painting.

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 An abstract oil painter often using large, geometric forms with aggressive coloration, Al Held became a major figure in the New York art scene in the later part of the 20th century. His work is stark, usually large-scale, and much of its "in-your-face" forcefulness reflects his desire to bridge the division between viewers and his paintings.

He was born as Alvin Jacob Held in Brooklyn and grew up there and in the Bronx during Depression times when his Polish-Jewish family had a hard time financially. He was asked to leave high school because of chronic in-attendance, so he joined the Navy in 1945 and served for two years.

He began associating with people interested in "leftist" politics and art and attended the Art Students League from 1948 to 1949. Then with money from the G.I. Bill of Rights, he went to Paris and enrolled at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. Ossip Zadkine, Russian-born sculptor, was one of his teachers, and he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13769 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  97
Magazine References:  9

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9 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Al Held
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews A Bold Abstractionist October 2005 Somerstein, Rachel Yes
ARTFORUM The Big "A" October 2005 Storr, Robert Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions June 2003 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art in America Requiems for a Lost Future June 2003 Fyfe, Joe Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions July 2001 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art & Antiques Irrepressible Abstraction November 2000 Gomez, Edward M Yes
Architectural Digest Art Notebook: Contemporary Studies December 1995 Decker, Andrew Yes
Architectural Digest Al Held's Italian Days May 1995 Petkanas, Christopher Yes
Art in America Al Held March 1995 Katz, Vincent Yes
97 Book References for Al Held
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
2000 Skold, Stacey (compiler) Art Enterprises: Selections from the Collection 195 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Brown, Kathan Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press 287 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1994 LeClair, Charles The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition) 144 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Oldenburg, Richard/W Rubin The William S Paley Collection Museum of Modern Art 180 Yes
1991 Armstrong, Richard Al Held 140 Yes
1991 Kemper Gallery Kansas City AI Mary & Crosby Kemper Collection Selections from Inaugural Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Ashton, Dore Al Held-After Paris 1953-1955
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Auping, Michael Abstraction, Geometry, Painting Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1989 Kuspit, Donald Al Held New Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 30 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Rotzler, Willy Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present 332 Yes
1988 Berggruen, John John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)		 97 Yes
1988 Forge, Andrew Al Held Watercolors
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1987 Belz, Carl;Beth Goldberg Postwar Paintings from Brandeis University From Brandeis University (Rose Art Museum)
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1987 Schultz, Douglas (Intro) 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox 264 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Plante, Michael; Christopher Campbell, Megan Fox, et all Definitive Statements: American Art 1964-66 Brown University Department of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 181 No
1986 Rose Art Museum Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings 147 Yes
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1986 Stein, Harvey Artists Observed 160 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 Bromberg, Anne R Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works 219 Yes
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Lucie-Smith, Edward Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition 288 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Marshall, Richard American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 124 No
1984 Schimmel, Paul Action, Precision The New Direction in New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1983 Smith Kramer Art Connections American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History
(Exhibition catalog)		 113 Yes
1983 Walker, Barry The American Artist as Printmaker
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Sandler, Irving (essay) Al Held Paintings from 1954-1959 28 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom (Foreward) 1981 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience 64 Yes
1980 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art in the Seventies 128 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Cathcart, Linda L American Painting of the 1970s
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1977 Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present 277 Yes
1977 Seabolt, Fred/Donald Goodall New in the Seventies (Archer Huntington Gallery Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Rose, Barbara American Painting The Twentieth Century 116 No
1970 Time-Life Books, Editors American Painting 1900-1970 192 Yes
1969 Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld Art Today 542 Yes
1969 Hopkins, Henry (Preface); Peter Plagens, Essay Drawings: Exhibition of Contemporary American Drawings Fort Worth Art Center Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 84 No
1968 Battcock, Gregory (editor) Minimal Art A Critical Anthology 448 No
1968 Calas, Nicolas Art in the Age of Risk and Other Essays 238 No
1968 Green, Eleanor Al Held
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 Yes
1968 Sweeney, James Johnson Signals in the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 1968 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1967 Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art Two Decades of American Painting Gendai Amerika Kaiga Ten 81 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Pellegrini, Aldo New Tendencies in Art 320 Yes
1966 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Systemic Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1963 Brandeis University New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1963 Jewish Theological Seminary Toward a New Abstraction
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1961 E.G. Poindexter; Frank O'Hara The Poindexter Collection of Contemporary American Art (Montana Historical Society) 30 No
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)		 1961 No
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