Gift of Robert Miller and Purchase, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1987
Catalogue
- Year
- 1966
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 12 × 56 ft. (365.8 × 1706.9 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Al Held
Artist
Painting
Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art form. In the 1950s his style reflected the abstract expressionist tone and then transitioned to a geometric style in the 1960s. During the 1980s, there was a shift into painting that emphasized bright geometric space the deepness of which reflected infinity. From 1963 to 1980 he was a professor of art at Yale University.
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- Al Held
- Year
- 1966
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 12 × 56 ft. (365.8 × 1706.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1966-004922
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified