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Al Held Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Al Held available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Untitled Y, 1960
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Held
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Al Held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Untitled, 1964
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Vaporum VI, 1988
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "H"
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Composition
University of Maine Museum of Art
Hawk Eye II, 1998
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
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Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Crown Point Press
Repository of Abstract Art
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) 
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Genesis II, 2002-03
See Through IV, 2002
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Al Held: New Paintings
Al Held at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1975 interview from the Oral History project
The Brooklyn Rail
A Tribute to Al Held
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