Artist Master Printmaker Harold Altman Signed Print December III. Mourlot 40/265

Description: For sale is a wonderful print by the highly regarded Pennsylvania artist and master printmaker Harold Altman (1924 - 2003) Provenance: Collection of Cigna Insurance Company Art Collection; Hartford Connecticut Artist: Harold Altman (1924 - 2003) Medium: Lithograph Title: December III Edition: 40/265 Signed: Yes Publisher: Mourlot, Paris France (Embossed lower left) Framing: Gsllery framed under glass Condition: Print in overall good condition. The silver gilded frame with age appropriate wear and surface losses. Measurements: Framed - 18 1/2" x 13 3/4" Image Size - 7 7/8" x 11 7/8" Harold Altman (1924 - 2003) Printmaker Harold Altman was an etcher, painter, and teacher, who was born in New York City in 1924. He attended the Art Students League, 1941-42 and Cooper Union, (Graduate in Fine Arts), 1941-47, both in New York City. In 1946, he attended Black Mountain College, North Carolina and then went on to The New School, New York City 1947-49. Finishing his extensive art education at the L'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris 1949-52. The artist also served with the 937th Engineer Camouflage, European Theater of Operations during World War II, 1942-45. Altman settled in the central Pennsylvanian village of Lemont in 1962, where a nineteenth-century frame church serves as his studio. Approximately four months out of the year are spent working in Paris where his lithographs are printed at Atelier DesJobert. In previous years, his etchings were printed at Atelier George LeBlanc. Altman's landscapes and figurative works have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, both in the United States and abroad. He is represented in nearly every significant collection in the world. New York's Museum of Modern Art owns over forty Altmans while the Whitney Museum of American Art and Brooklyn Museums each have over fifty of his works in their permanent collections. His work is to be found in many significant museum collections outside of the United States, several of which are 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.

Price: 187.5 USD

Location: Kingston, New York

End Time: 2024-11-09T21:37:15.000Z

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