Benches 1982

Year1982

Hand SignedLower Right Pencil 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with GlassGreen Wood Frame 

Purchased fromGallery 1985 

Provenance / HistoryGalerie Matisse, Lake Geneva, WI 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID146181

Harold Altman - United States

Art Brokerage: Harold Altman American Artist: B. 1924. Harold Altman was born in New York City in 1924. Harold Altman attended the Art Students League, the Black Mountain College, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and was a graduate of the Cooper Union Art School. Since 1962 he has lived in the central Pennsylvania, where a nineteenth century frame church serves as his studio. Altman spends one third of each year working in Paris where his lithographs are printed. He is represented in numerous collections. New York's Museum of Modern Art owns over forty Altmans while the Whitney and Brooklyn Museums, each have over fifty of his works in their permanent collections. Harold Altman work is to be found in many museum collections outside of the United States including the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, the Kunst Museum of Basel, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Copenhagen and the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris. Altman has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships. Among them are two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Tamarind Lithography Fellowship, a National Institute of the Arts and Letters Award, a Fulbright-Hayes Senior Research Fellowship for work in France and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Listings wanted.