Harold Altman

     Harold Altman has been recognized by critics as one of the leading graphic artists in the United States and ranked among the finest printmakers in the world.

     He was born in New York City in 1924 and lived in central Pennsylvania in the small village of Lemont, where a nineteenth century frame church served as his studio.

      Throughout his career Harold Altman spent one third of the year working in Paris where all of his lithographs and etchings were printed, fist at Merlot and after 1986 at Desjobert, two of the finest lithographic printing houses in the world.  It was at these printing houses that some of the most memorable images of Central Park and Parisian Parks such as, Parc Monceau, Parc Montsouris and Luxembourg Gardens were created over a span of over forty years.

      Harold Altman’s work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums throughout the world.  He is represented in nearly every significant collection in the United States.  Some of the museums with Harold Altman’s works in their collection are the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Center, the Minnesota Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institute, the Walker Art Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts and the San Diego Museum of Art.

      Harold Altman’s works can also be found in a number of museum collections outside the United States, such as: the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, the Stedelikj Museum of Amsterdam, the Kunst Museum of Basel, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris, the Bibliotheque Royal of Belgium, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Malmo Museum in Sweden, the Museum of Modern Art in Haifa, Israel, the Museum of the University of Glasgow in Scotland and the Musee Carnavalet in Paris, France.