Magnetic Mountain

1. The artist; Mary and Earle Ludgin, Hubbard Woods, 1950 [letter from Kurt Seligmann to Mary and Earle Ludgin, Oct. 11, 1950, Earle and Mary Ludgin Papers, Reel 3822, Earle and Mary Ludgin Papers, 1930-1983, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; copy in curatorial object file]; given to Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 22, 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, 1949, Oct. 13–Dec. 11, 1949, cat. 101.
• Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kurt Seligmann, Apr. 1949.
• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Nov. 10–Dec. 31, 1950, cat. 119.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, Sept. 11–Oct. 31, 1982, no cat.
• Zug, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Zug, Kurt Seligmann, Nov. 23, 1997–Feb. 15, 1998, cat. 251.
• St. Petersburg, FL, Salvador Dalí Museum, The Shape of Dreams, Nov. 25, 2022–Apr. 30, 2023, no cat. no.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Surrealism, Sept. 4, 2024–Jan. 13, 2025, no cat. no.

• Painting in the United States, 1949, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, 1949), cat. 101.
• Derrière le miroir no. 19, special issue Kurt Seligmann (Galerie Maeght, 1949).
• Belle Krasne, “‘Expressionism, Abstraction, Surrealism’ Predominate at the Whitney,” The Art Digest 24 (Nov. 15, 1950), 12 (ill.).
• Hermon More, 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950), n.p. (ill.), cat. 119.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1981-82, 38.
• Stephan E. Hauser, Kurt Seligmann 1900-1962: Leben und Werk, exh. cat. (Schwabe & Co. AG, 1997), 300, 301 (color ill.), 442, cat. 251.
• Timothy Baum, Stephan E. Hauser, Stephen Robeson Miller, Martica Sawin, Meyer Schapiro, and Kurt Seligmann, Kurt Seligmann: First Message from the Spirit World of the Object, exh. cat. (Weinstein Gallery, 2015), 70 (ill.).
• Hank Hine, with William Jeffett, Peter Tush, Shaina Harkness, Allison McCarthy, and Kelsey Hallbeck, The Shape of Dreams, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, FL: The Dali Museum, 2022), 22, 23 (color ill.), 128-29 (color ill.), 143.
• Didier Ottinger and Marie Sarré, eds., Surrealism: First and Always, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2024), 60–61 (color ill.), 228.

Untitled

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Untitled

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Exotic garden

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Baal and Astarte

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Melusine and the Great Transparents

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Heraldry

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Five Heads

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The Dance

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