Resources
Exhibition HistoryBasel, Switzerland, Kunsthalle Basel, “Held Kelly Mattmuller Noland Olitski Pfahler Plumb Turnbull”, June 26 – September 5, 1965.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum, “Al Held”, March 25 – May 1, 1966.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, “Al Held”, January 9 – February 25, 1968.
Washington D.C., the Corcoran Gallery of Art, “Al Held”, March 16 – April 21, 1968.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Al Held”, October 11 – December 1, 1974.
Published ReferencesYau, John. "The Connoisseurship of Al Held." Hyperallergic.com. N.p., 17 Mar. 2013. Web. 30 May 2014.
Rhodes, David. "Al Held Alphabet Paintings." The Brooklyn Rail. N.p., Apr. 2013. Web. 30 May 2014.
Beeren, W. A. L. “Al Held.” Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1966. Unpaginated, illustrated.
Rose, Barbara and Irving Sandler. “Sensibility of the Sixties.” Art in America, January – February, 1967. P.53 (illustrated).
Shirey, David L. “The Great Walls.” Newsweek, January 29, 1968. P.83 (illustrated).
Getlein, Frank. “Art: Corcoran Still in the Big Picture.” Washington Evening Star, March 17, 1968. Page unknown, illustrated.
Green, Eleanor. “Al Held.” San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968. P. 17 (Illustrated).
Touster, Irwin. “Al Held.” Woodstock Times, November 7, 1974. Page unknown, illustrated.
Tucker, Marcia. “Al Held.” New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974. P.50 (illustrated).
Irving, Sandler. “Al Held.” New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1984. P.59 (illustrated).
Armstrong, Richard. “Al Held.” New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1991. P. 15, plate 26.
Humblet, Claudine. “The New American Abstraction: 1950 – 1970.” Milan: Skira, 2007. P.774 (illustrated).
Storr, Robert. “Al Held Alphabet Paintings.” New York: Cheim & Read, 2013. Unpaginated, illustrated.
Johnson, Ken. “Al Held, ‘Alphabet Paintings’.” The New York Times, Weekend Arts, Section C, March 22, 2013. P.C27 (illustrated).