Harold Altman

Harold Altman was born 1924 in New York City. He attended the Art Students League in 1941-1942. Altman, also, attended The Cooper Union, where he was a graduate in Fine Arts in 1947. In 1946, Altman attended Black Mountain College and then went on to The New School in 1947. Finally, he ended at the L'Acadmie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Altman was also part of the 937th Engineer Camouflage, European Theater of Operations during World War II. Since 1962, he has called the central Pennsylvanian village of Lemont his home. There, he uses a nineteenth century frame church as his studio. Altman's works have been shown in numerous galleries and museums all over the world. Accordingly, Altman is represented in almost all of the world's significant collections. Consequently, Altman spends one-third of the year working in Paris where his lithographs are printed at Atelier DesJobert. Because of his amazing talents, Altman has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Tamarind Lithography Fellowship, a National Institute of the Arts and Letters Award, a Fullbright-Hays Senior Research Fellowship for his work in France and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.