Al Held at Cheim and Read is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Color Fields

The Daily Pic: From 1966, pure form that's built around letters.

Published Apr. 2 2013 11:35AM EDT

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Al Held made “Upside Down Triangle” in 1966, and the work is now in “Al Held: Alphabet Paintings”, a lovely show of the artist’s Color Field pictures at Cheim & Read gallery in New York.

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Al Held at Cheim and Read is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

The Daily Pic: From 1966, pure form that's built around letters.

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