19-1976 Jan. 8, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Biography by the Sheldon Gallery Obituary in The Guardian, 2005 Al Held Foundation Al Held in the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler collection 1928 births 2005 deaths Abstract painters American contemporary painters 20th-century American painters American male painters Abstract expressionist artists Art Students League of New York alumni People from the Bronx People from Brooklyn Jewish painters Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière Painters from New York City 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century American male artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters