Lithograph

Set of four lithography of Central Park in New York City. Each print is signed by the artist with an edition number 233/238. Framed in a dark wooden frame with an off white matte.

Printmaker Harold Altman was an etcher, painter, and teacher, who was born in New York City in 1924. He attended the Art Students League from 1941-42 and Cooper Union (Graduate in Fine Arts) from 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.

H 23.5 in. x W 18.5 in. x D 1 in.

H. 13.5 in x W 9 in