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1924 New York City - 2003 State College, Pennsylvania. Known for: Landscape and figure painting, lithographs.
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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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Keywords (31)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Central Park, New York City
Art School
- •Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Black Mountain College, North Carolina, Student
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
- •New School For Social Research, (The New School), Student
- •Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Albuquerque, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Camouflage Artist
- •Figure Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Institute of Arts and Letters
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts