Description
Roger Hoffman Selchow (1911–1994) was an American artist who gained recognition for his geometrically abstract paintings, assemblages, and sculptures.
His work reflects the influences of European modernism, including the Bauhaus, Constructivism, and Cubism.
Born on February 13, 1911, in Greenwich, Connecticut, Selchow began his artistic training at the Grand Central School of Art in New York (1931–1933) and continued his studies at Columbia University (1947–1948).
Following the Second World War, he pursued further studies in Europe—attending the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he studied under André Lhôte and Fernand Léger—as well as the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Florence and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Liège.
Selchow’s work was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe and the United States, including in Paris, Brussels, Liège, and New York. His pieces are held in the collections of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Liège, and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.
In addition to his abstract work, Selchow also created illustrative maps—such as a hand-colored map of Greenwich, Connecticut, produced to mark the town’s 300th anniversary in 1940. This map depicts historical buildings and events from the American Revolutionary War.
Selchow passed away in 1994, yet his work remains influential and continues to be exhibited and collected today.
This is one of his wonderful and subtle abstract drawings, ink on paper, 1950s. In very good condition, signed Selchow, 24×31,5, passepartout 35×46 (frame available on request)
