Awakening
1988 · Etching
Museum of Modern Art
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Charles Seliger
American, 1926–2009
New York City, NY, USA
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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American Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
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New Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
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Charles Seliger was an American painter and sculptor whose abstract work emerged from postwar geometric and organic vocabularies. Working primarily in oil and mixed media, he developed intricate compositions that balanced mathematical precision with biomorphic forms, creating surfaces of substantial visual density. His practice spanned six decades without major institutional retrospectives, yet his rigorous formal investigations maintained a consistent philosophical commitment to the interaction of color, line, and spatial illusion.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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