# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-held
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:51:14.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-held"
name: "Al Held"
slug: "al-held"
description: "Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art form. In the 1950s his style reflected the abstract expressionist tone and then transitioned to a geometric style in the 1960s. During the 1980s, there was a shift into painting that emphasized bright geometric space the deepness of which reflected infinity. From 1963 to 1980 he was a professor of art at Yale University."
tagline: "American artist (1928-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hard_Edge_in_Stedelijk_Museum_van_Amerikaanse_schilder_Al_Held%2C_Bestanddeelnr_918-9590.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1928-10-12"
deathDate: "2005-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.682830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.alheldfoundation.org/al-held"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Held"
    title: "Al Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "أل هيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "ال هيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB"
    title: "Хелд, Ал"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Held"
    title: "Al Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Held"
    title: "Al Held"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump