Al Held Prints and Multiples
American, 1928-2005
Alvin Jacob Held, (1928-2005) Al Held earned his slot in the annals of American contemporary art with his bold, geometric canvases that took abstraction to another level. His free-floating, interlocked cubes, and planes invited the viewer into a vertigo-inducing landscape that seemed to stretch on into infinity. "Immense architectural structures curve and slice through these complex paintings, often enmeshing themselves in cellular structures," noted the Times of London. "Viewers felt that they were exploring some mysterious universe, and Held never lost his passionate belief in abstract painting's ability to create a sublime new world."
Held grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and as a teenager, missed so many days of high school that it was suggested he consider leaving altogether. He eventually earned a night-school diploma, and spent two years in the U.S. Navy. Back in New York City, he enrolled in classes at the Art Students League, and went on to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris in the early 1950s. The first solo exhibition of his work was staged there, in 1952 at the Galerie Huit. Held's abstract work took on a more orderly, formal tone, aided by a switch from oil to acrylic paints in 1959, and he had his first solo show in New York City that same year at the Poindexter Gallery. "Finessing the gap between Minimalism and Color Field painting," wrote New York Times journalist Ken Johnson of the next decade of Held's career, "he produced smooth, simplified works based on enlarged letters of the alphabet. And in the late '60s and '70s he made complex black-and-white pictures of sharply outlined cubes, pyramids, and other geometric shapes floating in illusory spaces of indeterminate depth."
Some of Held's best-known works are those floating black and white cubes, a series he began in 1967. One of the largest, which stretches more than 90 feet in length, was installed at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York. In the late 1970s, in an abrupt shift, he began using color again, and the geometric shapes became so precise that they were sometimes mistaken for computer-generated art. Held considered his images not unlike those of religious art, once telling an interviewer that "historically, the priests and wise men believed that it was the artist's job to make images of heaven and hell believable, even though nobody had experienced these places," he said, according to his Chicago Tribune obituary.
Held spent 20 years teaching at Yale University's. Represented by the Robert Miller Gallery in New York City, which staged what would be his last exhibition of new work in 2003, Held's works were avidly sought by contemporary-art enthusiasts around the world, and were part of the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
— Carol Brennanto
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Artist: Al Held
RUSSELL'S WAY
By Al Held
Located in Three Oaks, MI
In excellent condition from an edition of 50, this piece is beautifully framed in museum-quality materials. Al Held is best remembered for his large-scale paintings of bright, hard-e...
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1880s Abstract Expressionist Al Held Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Scholes I, Large Framed Geometric Abstract by Al Held
By Al Held
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Al Held, American (1928 - 2005)
Title: Scholes I
Year: 1991
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 80
Image Size: 23 x 29 inches
Size: 29 x 34 in. (73.66 ...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Al Held Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Russell's Way, Large Colorful Geometric Abstract Etching by Al Held
By Al Held
Located in Long Island City, NY
Russell’s Way by Al Held, American (1928–2005)
Date: 1969
Aquatint on Somerset paper, signed, dated, and numbered in pencil verso
Edition of 37/50
Image Size: 35.5 x 44.5 inches
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1960s Abstract Geometric Al Held Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
S.F.
By Al Held
Located in Henderson, NV
Al Held is know for his volumetric geometric compositions.
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1980s Al Held Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Putu, Large Colorful Geometric Abstract Etching by Al Held
By Al Held
Located in Long Island City, NY
Putu by Al Held, American (1928–2005)
Date: 1988
Aquatint Etching, signed, numbered and dated in pencil verso
Edition of 16/25
Image Size: 35.5 x 44.5 inches
Size: 41 in. x 53.5 in. ...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Al Held Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Scholes II, Screenprint by Al Held
By Al Held
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Al Held, American (1928 - 2005)
Title: Scholes II
Year: 1991
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 80
Image Size: 23 x 29 inches
Size: 29 x 34 in. (73.66...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Al Held Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Kyoto-wa
By Al Held
Located in New York, NY
One of the most recognizable and collectible images by Al Held, Kyoto-wa was created by the artist as an original woodcut with lithography in 1985. Hand-signed in pencil, dated and ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Al Held Prints and Multiples
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Scholes I
By Al Held
Located in New York, NY
This screenprint was created by the artist in 1991. Signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 80 measuring 29 x 34 in. (73.7 x 86.4 cm.). Published by The Metropolitan Museu...
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20th Century Abstract Geometric Al Held Prints and Multiples
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Screen
Scholes II
By Al Held
Located in New York, NY
This screenprint was created by the artist in 1991. Signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 80 measuring 29 x 34 in. (73.7 x 86.4 cm.). Published by The Metropolitan Museu...
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Screen
Pachinko
By Al Held
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Scholes II, Screenprint by Al Held
By Al Held
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Al Held, American (1928 - 2005)
Title: Scholes II
Year: 1991
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 80
Image Size: 23 x 29 inches
Size: 29 x 34 in. ...
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By Al Held
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Al Held, American (1928 - 2005)
Title: Scholes I
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