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Charles Seliger Biography
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1926 |
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Born: New York, NY
Grew up in Jersey City, NJ
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1943 |
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became friends with artist Jimmy Ernst
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1946 |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY acquires for their Permanent Collection, his painting,"Natural History: Form Within Rock"
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Lee Krasner Award, granted by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, in recognition of his long and illustrious career in the arts, 2003
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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'1945-1949 Repartir a zero, comme si la peinture n'avait jamais existe,' Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France (group)
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2008
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'Charles Seliger: Ways of Nature,' Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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'Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection,' Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (group)
'Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism,' Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY (group)
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2006
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'Charles Seliger: New Paintings,'Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2003
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'Charles Seliger: Chaos to Complexity,' Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1999
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'Paper Invitational II,' Woodward Gallery, New York, NY (group)
'Charles Seliger: The Nascent Image, Recent Paintings,' Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1998
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'Original Scale,' Apexart, New York, NY (group)
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1997
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'Charles Seliger: Biomorphic Drawings,' Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1994
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'Charles Seliger: Nature's Journal, Recent Paintings and Gouaches,' Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
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1992
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'Charles Seliger, Infinities: Recent Paintings,' Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1986
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Retrospective Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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1985
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'Charles Seliger, eighteen paintings,' Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York, NY (solo)
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1981
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'Charles Seliger: Intimate Abstractions,' Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL and Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville FL (solo)
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1978
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'Charles Seliger: Aeons,' Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1950
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Willard Gallery (solo), New York, NY
Galerie Lopes AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (group), Richmond, VA
Newark Museum (group), Newark, NJ
Riverside Museum (group), New York, NY
Baltimore Museum (group). Baltimore, MD
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1949
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M.H. de Young Memorial Museum (solo), San Francisco, CA
Brooklyn Museum 15th Biennial Int’l Watercolor Exhibition(group), Brooklyn, NY
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1948
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Salon des Réalités Nouvelles (group),Paris, France
‘New Painters’(group), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
‘Recent Acquisitions’ (group) , Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
‘Annual Exhibition’ (group), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
24th Venice Biennale (group) Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Italy
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1947
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‘Abstract and Surrealist American Art’, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1946
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Biennial Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (group), Richmond, VA
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1945
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"A Problem for Critics"(group), Howard Putzel’s 67 Gallery, New York, NY
Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century (solo) , New York, NY
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery (group), Rochester, NY
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1944
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Jersey City Museum (group), Jersey City, NJ
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1943
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Norlyst Gallery (group), New York, NY
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