the artist, New York (1966–87); Robert Miller, New York (1987; his partial gift and sale through the Robert Miller Gallery, New York to MMA)
New York. Jewish Museum. "Large Scale American Paintings," July 11–September 17, 1967 (lent by André Emmerich Gallery, New York).
San Francisco Museum of Art. "Al Held," January 9–February 25, 1968.
Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Al Held," March 16–April 21, 1968.
Kassel. Museum Fridericianum. "Documenta IV," June 27–October 6, 1968.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Al Held," October 11–December 1, 1974, no. 14 (lent by the artist).
Harold Rosenberg. "The Art World: Big." New Yorker (August 26, 1967), pp. 90, 97.
"Art; Painting: An American Largeness." Time (July 14, 1967), p. 64.
Grace Glueck. "Art Notes: Fun at Home with MoMA, the Met and the Gugg." New York Times (June 18, 1967), p. D27.
James R. Mellow. "On Art: Those Wide Open Spaces." New Leader 50 (August 28, 1967), p. 23.
Janet Kardon. 1967: At the Crossroads. Exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1967, p. 9.
James R. Mellow. "New York." Art International 11 (October 20, 1967), p. 64, ill. p. 65.
Scott Burton. "Big H." Art News 67 (March 1968), pp. 50, 53, 70–71, ill. p. 50 (installation view).
Jeanne Siegel. "Documenta IV: Homage to the Americans?" Artsmagazine 43 (September–October 1968), p. 39, ill. p. 38 (installation view Exh. Kassel 1968).
D[avid]. L. S[hirey]. "The Great Walls." Newsweek (January 29, 1968), p. 83, ill. (installation view).
Paul Richard. "Paintings at the Corcoran Cause Hostility by Viewers." Washington Post (March 31, 1968), p. G9, ill. (installation view).
Nicolas Calas. "The Originality of Al Held." Art International 12 (May 15, 1968), p. 41, ill. p. 40.
Barbara Gold. "Art Notes: New Shapes For The Sixties." Baltimore Sun (March 31, 1968), p. D2.
Sidney Tillim. "Rosenquist at the Metropolitan." Artforum (April 1968), p. 48.
Knute Stiles. "The Paintings of Al Held." Artforum 6 (March 1968), p. 49, ill. p. 53.
Emily Wasserman. "Art: Al Held, Andre Emmerich Gallery." Artforum 7 (December 1968), p. 57.
"Al Held Show Opens." Central New Jersey Home News (November 24, 1968), p. 40, notes the artist received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966 to finish this work.
Robert Kudielka. "Documenta 4: A Critical Review." Studio International 176 (September 1968), p. 77.
Marcia Tucker. Al Held. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1974, pp. 14–15, no. 14, ill. p. 51 (color).
Phyllis Derfner. "New York Letter." Art International 13 (December 1974), ill. p. 38 (installation Exh. New York 1974).
Hilton Kramer. "Art View: Al Held Leaves Us Uneasy and Disturbed." New York Times (October 20, 1974), p. D33.
Joseph Masheck and Robert Pincus-Witten. "Al Held: Two Views." Artforum 13 (January 1975), p. 55, ill. p. 56.
Irving Sandler. Al Held. New York, 1984, pp. 46, 51, ill. pp. 47 (color), 180 (in progress).
Jed Perl. "The Representational Impulse: Painting in New York 1960–1985." New Criterion 3 (April 1985), p. 28.
Kay Larson. "Art: Heavy Traffic." New York Magazine 20 (March 23, 1987), p. 70.
Roger Bevan. "Exhibition Reviews: The Metropolitan Museum: A New Wing for Modern Art." Apollo 127 (January 1988), p. 42, fig. 3 (installation view).
Al Held inAl Held: Italian Watercolors + An Interview + An Essay. Ed. Maarten van de Guchte. Exh. cat., Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign, 1993, p. 119.
Robert Storr. "The Big 'A': Robert Storr on Al Held." Artforum (October 2005), ill. p. 31 (color installation view Exh. New York 1974).
Irving Sandler. "Al Held (1928–2005): A Maverick in the New York Art World." American Art 20 (Spring 2006), pp. 109–10.
Arthur Lubow. "True Believers: How New York’s Jewish Museum Anticipated the Avant-Garde." New York Times Style Magazine. July 23, 2020 [updated July 28, 2020].
Al Held (American, Brooklyn, New York 1928–2005 Todi)
1991
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