
Happy Birthday to Earle and all Good Wishes From Both of Us
Catalogue
- Year
- 1955
- Dimensions
- Plate: 35.4 × 49.7 cm (13 15/16 × 19 5/8 in.); Sheet: 48.5 × 66 cm (19 1/8 × 26 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Kurt Seligmann
Artist

Painting
Kurt Seligmann was an American painter and printmaker who worked across abstraction and figuration, creating dense, layered compositions that incorporated automatist techniques and mythological imagery. Active in the postwar period, he developed a distinctly personal synthesis of Surrealist methods and Jungian psychology, translating psychological states into complex visual narratives. His work combined painting, etching, and collage to explore the unconscious as a generative space.
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Untitled
1955 · Crayons on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Exorcism
1954 · Ink, gouache, wash, and resin on paper
Part of a Garden
1952 · Oil on canvas
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- Kurt Seligmann
- Year
- 1955
- Dimensions
- Plate: 35.4 × 49.7 cm (13 15/16 × 19 5/8 in.); Sheet: 48.5 × 66 cm (19 1/8 × 26 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1955-040159
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
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