Framed print (32.5w x 26h)(unframed 23.5w  x 15.87h) by Harold Altman Edition of 286

Harold Altman was born in New York City in 1924. He attended the Art Students League, the Black Mountain College, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and was a graduate of the Cooper Union Art School.

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. Altman lived in central Pennsylvania in the small village of Lemont, where a nineteenth century frame church served as his studio.Throughout his career he spent one third of the year working in Paris where all of his lithographs and etchings were printed, first at Mourlot 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. The artist's works have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, both in the United States and abroad. He is represented in nearly every significant collection in the world. New York's Museum of Modern Art owns over forty Altmans while the Whitney and Brooklyn Museums each have over fifty of his works in their permanent collections.

His work is to be found in many museum collections outside of the United States, several of which are the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, the Kunst Museum of Basel, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Copenhagen and the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris.

Altman has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships. Among them are two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Tamarind Lithography Fellowship, a National Institute of the Arts and Letters Award, a Fulbright-Hayes Senior Research Fellowship for work in France and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.