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OFFICIAL SITE FOUND FOR: Al+Held

Al Held

Gallery: FOUNDATION

Country: U.S.A.

City: CATSKILLS NY

Website: https://www.alheldfoundation.org/

Email: info@alheldfoundation.org

Abstract:
Al Held was one of the most ambitious American painters of the 20th century.

Primarily known as a pioneer of hard-edge abstraction, Held (1928–2005) continuously evolved his abstract painting towards greater complexity in order to formulate unseen truths. Born in Brooklyn in 1928, Held studied at the Art Students League in New York, aspiring to paint social realist murals. While working in Paris from 1951–53, he began to identify as a second generation Abstract Expressionist. Throughout the 1950s he painted heavily impastoed canvases, determined to give structure to gesture. By the end of the decade Held began using acrylic paint for geometric shapes, giving his paintings a hard-edged clarity. The resulting series, most famously the Alphabet paintings of the 1960s, established his signature style of monumental specificity.

GALLERIES dealing with Al+Held

Total galleries found: 24

CANADA (2 galleries)
Rukaj Gallery
TORONTO ON , CANADA [GALLERY]
UDELL DOUGLAS
VANCOUVER , CANADA [GALLERY]
U.S.A. (20 galleries)
HILL GALLERY
BIRMINGHAM MI , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
KLEIN DAVID
BIRMINGHAM MI , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
McCormick Gallery
CHICAGO IL , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
SCHLESINGER LORA
LOS ANGELES CA , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
ROBERT FONTAINE GALLERY
MIAMI BEACH FL , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
GOODMAN JAMES
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
HORAN VIVIAN FINE ART
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
MILLER ROBERT
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
NATHALIE KARG GALLERY
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
PACE PRINTS
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
SUSAN SHEEHAN GALLERY
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
Taylor Graham
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
VALLARINO VINCENT FINE ART
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
Van Doren Waxter
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
WASHBURN
NEW YORK NY , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
CROWN POINT PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO CA , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
John Berggruen Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO CA , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
PEYTON WRIGHT
SANTA FE NM , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
William Shearburn Gallery
ST. LOUIS MO , U.S.A. [GALLERY]
UNITED KINGDOM (2 galleries)
ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN
LONDON , UNITED KINGDOM [GALLERY]
AUSTIN/DESMOND FINE ART
LONDON , UNITED KINGDOM [GALLERY]