The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being. Charles Seliger, whose small-scale, jewel-like paintings of imaginary natural forms made him the most idiosyncratic of the first-generation Abstract Expressionists, died in Manhattan on Oct. 1. He was 83 and lived... Read full biography
The following obituary of the artist is from The New York Times, October 9, 2009, A20. "Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83" by William Grimes. Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being. Charles Seliger, whose small-scale, jewel-like paintings of imaginary natural forms made him the most idiosyncratic of the first-generation Abstract Expressionists, died in Manhattan on Oct. 1. He was 83 and lived in Westchester County, N.Y. The cause was a stroke, said his son, Robert. While fellow artists like Jackson P... Read full biography
Charles Seliger - Artist Info
About Charles Seliger: Books
Books & Publications (27)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Wechsler, Jeffrey (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
112 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Peggy Guggenheim: Mistress of Modernism
2004
Dearborn, Mary
448 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism
2003
O'Connor, Francis V.
215 pages (color)
Charles Seliger: Chaos to Complexity
2003
Yau, John
56 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Charles Seliger: The Nascent Image
1999
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
40 pages (color)
Charles Seliger: Biomorphic Drawings, 1944-1947
1997
Hunter, Sam
16 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Charles Seliger: Nature's Journal
1994
Levin, Gail
32 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Theme & Improvisation Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Levin, Gail/Marianne Lorenz
236 pages
Charles Seliger: Infinities
1992
Parks, Addison
16 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Smith Kramer Art Connections
113 pages (color)
Solitude Inner Visions in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Terra Museum of American Art
41 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Charles Seliger Aeons (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Andrew Crispo Gallery
28 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1965
University of Illinois
210 pages
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)