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HELD Al; 1928 Brooklyn - American Abstract / Expressionist painter. |
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| 1940s | Held's
first art training was at the Arts Students League, New York, in the
late 1940s. He then studied at Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris. |
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| 1949-52 | Went
to Paris where
he spent the next three years studying
at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. |
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| 1953 | He
returned to New York in 1953, having become a modernist. |
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| 1959 | In the next few years he established himself as a working artist and began to exhibit his work. His first solo show took place at a New York gallery in 1959. | ||
| 1962-80 | Professor,
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. |
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| 1984 | Received a Guggenheim Fellowship | ||
| 1997 | Held
designed a 440 foot long glass mural for the new Washington D.C.
National Airport terminal, which opened in 1997. Fifty-five uniquely configured glass panels were made from Held's watercolor sketches. Mouth-blown glass was meticulously selected to match the more than 100 different colors in Held's original artwork. |
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| AWARDS
include: 1964 Logan Medal, Art Institute of Chicago 1966 Guggenheim
Fellowship, Creative Painting 1983 Jack I. and Lillian L. Poses Brandeis
University Creative Arts Awards, Painting Medal COMMISSIONS include:
1967 Tower East, Cleveland 1976 Empire State Plaza, Albany Mall Mural,
New York 1977 Social Security Administration's Mid-Atlantic Program
Center, Philadelphia 1983 Southland Center Lobby, Dallas 1985 Akron
Government Building, Ohio 1995-1997. further reading: about the artist |
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