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Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly known for his large-scale hard-edge paintings. Read the full biography

Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly known for his large-scale hard-edge paintings. As an artist, several stylistic shifts occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred around the same time as a popular emerging style or worked 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 in painting that emphasized the luminous geometric space that is depth reflected in infinity. From 1963 to 1980 he was a professor of art at Yale University.