Al Held

Tom McGlynn reviews Al Held in Paris: 1952-53 at Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, on view through June 15, 2018. McGlynn begins: "Al Held moved to Paris in the early 1950s where he was part of a loose-knit expatriate community of American painters that included Joan Mitchell and Sam Francis. Mitchell, Francis and Held all

The graphic monumentality of Al Held's Alphabet Paintings comes from vigorously painted architectonic arrangements of letterforms painted on near-mural scale canvases.