John Berggruen Gallery
Al Held
Biography
Al HELD - SOLO EXHIBITIONS1952
Galerie Huit, Paris
1959
Poindexter Gallery, New York
1960
Poindexter Gallery, New York (January 18 ? February 6)
1961
Poindexter Gallery, New York
Bonino Galeria, Buenos Aires
1962
Poindexter Gallery, New York (November 13 ? December 1)
1964
Galerie Ren?e Ziegler, Z?rich, Bilder (October 1964)
Galerie Gunar, Dusseldorf
1965
Andr? Emmerich, New York
1966
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (March 25 - May 1)
Galerie M?ller, Stuttgart (January 21 ? February 18)
1967
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York (April 15 ? May 4)
Al Held?s Studio, New York (April 15 ? May 4)
Galerie Ren?e Ziegler, Z?rich, Bilder
1968
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York (October 5 ? October 24)
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (January 9 ? February 25); traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC (March 16 ? April 21)
1968-69
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Al Held: Recent Paintings (November 20 - December 26); traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (January 7 ? 26, 1969)
1970
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (March 14 ? April 1)
Galerie Ren?e Ziegler, Z?rich, Bilder (May 1 - May 30)
1971
Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, Al Held: Recent Paintings (October 16 ? November 13)
1972
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (April 1 - 19)
1973
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (October 5 ? October 24)
1974
Galerie Andre Emmerich, Z?rich (January 16 ? February 16)
Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit Al Held: Recent Paintings and Drawings (June 8 ? July 6)
Galerie M?ller, Cologne (October ? November)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Al Held (October 11 - December 1) (retrospective)
1975
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: Drawings (March 15 ? April 3)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (November 13 ? December 1)
Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto (April 26 ? May 17)
Adler Castillo Gallery, Caracas, Al Held (September)
1976
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York
1977
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Al Held (November 5 - December 10)
Galerie Andre Emmerich, Z?rich, Al Held: Neue Bilder und Zeichnungen/Recent Paintings and Drawings (January 15 ? February 19)
Galerie Ren?e Ziegler, Z?rich, Al Held: F?rhe Werke/Early Works (January 15 ? February 19)
Galerie Roger d'Amecourt, Paris, Al Held
Annely Juda Fine Art, London (May 10 ? June 25)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (April 29 ? May 17)
1978
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (April 29 - May 17)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Al Held: Paintings and Drawings 1973-1978 (February 15 - April 1)
Mariannne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Drawings By Al Held (opened May 6)
Janus Gallery, Venice, CA, Al Held: Drawings 1959-1976 (October 13 ? November 11)
1979
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York
1980
Gimpel-Hanover & Galerie Andre Emmerich, Z?rich, Al Held: Neue Bilder/Recent Paintings (February 16 ? March 22)
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Al Held: Recent Paintings (April 10 ? May 10)
Quadrat Bottrop Moderne Galerie, Bottrop, West Germany, Al Held: Recent Paintings (May 18 ? July)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Al Held 1959-1961 (March 29 - April 26)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings 1980 (November 22 ? December 10)
1981
Grand Palais, Paris, FIAC (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain) exhibition with Andre Emmerich Gallery
Gimpel-Hanover & Galerie Andre Emmerich, Z?rich
1982
Juda Rowan Gallery, London (February 2 ? March 6)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Al Held: 1954-1959 (March 6 - April 3)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York (November 4 ? November 27)
The American Academy in Rome, Rome
1983
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Al Held: New Paintings (May 7 ? June 4)
Pace Editions, New York, Al Held: New Editions, Stone Ridge
1984
Gimpel-Hanover & Galerie Andr? Emmerich, Z?rich, Al Held: Zeichnungen von 1976 (February); exhibition traveled to Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York. Al Held: Drawings from 1976 (March 22 - April 14)
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Al Held: Major Paintings (March 28 ? April 25)
Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Major Paintings and Works on Paper (opened November 10)
1985
Andr? Emmerich, New York, Al Held (April 25 - May 18)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (October 2 ? 26)
1986
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (April 16 ? May 17)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York
1987
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Taxi Cabs 1959 (March 4 - 28)
Juda Rowan Gallery, London, Al Held: Drawings (January 22 ? February 28)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held New Paintings (April 2 - 25)
Galerie Ren?e Ziegler, Z?rich, Zeichnungen (March 27 ? May 2)
1988
Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham, MI, Al Held New Paintings (April 23 - May 28)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held Watercolors (October 13 - November 5)
1989
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held New Paintings (March 2 - 25)
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Al Held: Recent Paintings (October 12 - November 11)
Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Al Held Watercolours 1989 (November 11 - 30)
Galerie Ren?e Ziegler, Z?rich
1990
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Al Held: After Paris, 1953 - 1955 (January 4 - February 3)
Galerie Ren?e Ziegler, Z?rich, Al Held Arbeiten von 1989 (April 20 - May 23)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (November 6 ? December 1)
Crown Point Press, New York, Al Held: Etchings and Color Woodblock Prints (November 10 ? December 15)
Galerie Hans Mayer, D?sseldorf, Al Held: Neve Arbeiten (August)
1991
Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Al Held: Paintings 1990 (April 25 ? May 20)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York. Al Held 'The Italian Watercolors' (September 10 - October 12)
1992
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, Al Held (January 24 - March 8)
Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Al Held Paintings and Works on Paper (August 21 - September 11)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: New Paintings (October 8 - November 7)
Hokin Gallery, Bar Harbor Islands, FL (December)
1993
Crown Point Press, New York, Al Held Etching (March 10 ? April 17)
Landau Fine Art, Montreal, Al Held: Watercolors and Acrylics (April 25 ? June 15)
1993-1994
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Al Held: Italian Watercolors (August 27 - September 26); exhibition traveled to Adams Landing Contemporary Art Space, Cincinnati (October 6 -November 14); Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids (January 4 - February 15, 1994)
1994
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Al Held: Painting in Paris 1952 (September 13 - October)
1995
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: Time Past - Time Future (March 24 - April 22)
Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Geometric Abstraction
1996
Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Al Held: Aquarelle (February 2 ? April 13)
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held: Graphite/Charcoal Drawings (April 4 ? May 11)
1997
Andr? Emmerich Gallery, New York, Al Held Recent Paintings (March 27 - April 19)
1998
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Al Held (The Last Series: 1964-65) (October 14 - November 14)
2000
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Al Held Unfolding (October 21 - November 25)
2000-2001
Ameringer/Howard Fine Art, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, Al Held: The Italian Watercolors (December 14, 2000 - January 6, 2001)
2001
Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Ltd., Dallas, Al Held: Large-Scale Watercolor Paintings (Mav 18 - July 7) (exhibition traveled to Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe (October 12- November 10)
Ameringer/Howard/Yohe, New York, Al Held in Black and White: Paintings and Works on Paper (September 4 - October 11)
2002
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Brooklyn, Plane: The Essential of Painting: Kristin Baker, Al Held, Fabian Maraccio, William Scharf (June 30 - November 10)
2002-03
Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, Al Held and George Sugarman: The Early Sixties. (November 26, 2002 - January 25, 2003)
2002-2004
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Expanding Universe: The Recent Paintings of Al Held (January 12 - March 24, 2002); exhibition traveled to Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City (December 15, 2002 - March 9, 2003): Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland (April 12 - June 20); The Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH (August 3 - September 28); Boston University Art Gallery, Boston University, Boston (November 7, 2003 - January 11, 2004); University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME (January 22 - March 27)
2003-04
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Al Held (November 20, 2003 - January 3, 2004)
2005
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Al Held: Public Projects (January 11 ? January 15)
Orlando Museum of Art, Art in Architecture: Al Held, (February 26 ? April 3)
2006
J. Johnson Gallery, Al Held: American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1928-2005 (January 7 ? March 17)
Galerie Ren?e Ziegler, Z?rich, Switzerland, in memory of Al Held 1928-2005 (January 12 ? February 26)
Marianne Friedland Gallery, Naples, FL, The Watercolors of Al Held (opened February 9)
2007
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, Al Held: Gravity?s Strings (September 15 ? October 28)
2008
The University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA Al Held: The Evolution of Style? (June 26 ? August 10, 2008)
Public Collections:
First International Bank, Seattle, WA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Dayton Art Institute, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Staatgalerie, Stuttgart, West Germany
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Akron Art Institute, OH
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina, Greensborough, NC
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
National Gallery, Berlin
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Artist Works
Untitled 1959
oil on board
47 1/4 x 39 3/4 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Al Held
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