Oral history interview with Al Held
name: label: Interviewee
content: Held, Al, 1928-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
topic: label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Held, Al, 1928-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Al Held (1928-2005) is a painter from New York, N.Y. Studied at the Art Students League. Teaches at Yale University School of Art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Sound tape reels (Sound recording (10 hrs.), 1 7/8 ips., 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 239 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975 Nov. 19-1976 Jan. 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.held75
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Al Held conducted 1975 Nov. 19-1976 Jan. 8, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Held discusses his childhood; studying at the Art Students League; going to Paris for three years to study painting on the G.I. bill in the 1950's; experiences as a painter in N.Y. during the 1960's; the stages of his artistic development; his artistic philosophy; techniques; teaching painting classes at Yale since the 1960's; and his one man show at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1974.