Small Abstract Watercolor Dated 1985, Signed Seliger And Framed With Matte And Glass. Born Charles Marvin Zekowski in New York City in 1926, Charles Seliger is regarded among the elite of contemporary art in USA. During his lifetime, Seliger exhibited in over forty-five solo shows at prominent galleries in New York and abroad. But it was not until 1986, that he was given his first retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which now holds the largest collection of his work. In 2003, at age seventy-seven, Seliger received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Lee Krasner Award in recognition of his long and illustrious career in the arts. In 2005, the Morgan Library and Museum acquired his journals—148 hand-written volumes produced between 1952 and the present—making his introspective writing, which covers a vast range of topics across the span of six decades, accessible to art historians and scholars. His work is represented in numerous museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut; and the British Museum in London.