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"tombstone": "Jupiter IV, 1974. Al Held (American, 1928\u20132005). Acrylic on canvas; unframed: 152.4 x 152.4 cm (60 x 60 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with a grant from the NEA and matched by gifts from members of The Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art, 1976.101. \u00a9 Al Held Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Jupiter IV",
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"title": "Year in Review, 1976",
"description": "Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).",
"opening_date": "1977-02-01T05:00:00"
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"id": 181802,
"title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).",
"opening_date": "2006-06-09T00:00:00"
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"description": "MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): \"The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art\", no. 112, p. 122, repr. p. 78.",
"opening_date": "2006-06-09T00:00:00"
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"description": "\"Al Held,\" Adler Castillo Gallery, Caracas Venezuela (1975).",
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"description": "\"Year in Review 1976,\" CMA (1977).",
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{
"description": "\"Contemporary Art,\" CMA (Nov. 3 - Dec. 12, 1982).",
"opening_date": "1982-11-03T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "\"Contemporary Collection,\" CMA (Aug. 17 - Nov. 6, 1983).",
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"did_you_know": "Before enlisting in the United States Navy in 1945, Held claimed to have been expelled from high school in the Bronx.",
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"description": "From 1969 to 1978, the American painter Al Held investigated spatial conundrums by suggesting volume and depth in large, stark paintings like Jupiter IV. Over a flat, white surface he superimposed bold, black lines of varying thickness to render interlocking cubes, flowing circular forms, and other three-dimensional shapes, providing a complex symphony of continuous geometrical forms floating in infinite space.",
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"citation": "Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 77-78, no. 112",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:53.025000"
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