Artist: George Segal (1924 - 2000)
Nationality: American
Movement: Pop Art
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
George Segal began by studying art at several different institutions. In 1950, he earned an education degree from New York University. Until 1958, he primarily worked as a chicken farmer and painted Expressionist nudes in his free time. Segal made his first sculpture in 1958 and two years later was producing the sculptures that made him famous. He produced life-size plaster figures that used actual objects as props. In the 1970’s, lighting became an important concept of his work.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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George Segal - Bob 1998 pastel, crayon Arkansas Arts Center American
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Maurice Sterne, Vera Segal, 1930
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George Segal - An Actress 1965 plaster Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - Icy Nude n.d. oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - The Red Light 1972 plaster and mixed me Cleveland Museum of Art American
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George Segal - Man in the Armchair 1969 Plaster and Wood The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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George Segal - Bus Riders 1962 plaster, cotton gauz Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - To All Gates 1971 plaster, wood, plast Des Moines Art Center American
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George Segal - The Dancers 1971-1982 bronze with white pa National Gallery of Art American
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George Segal - Girl on a Chair 1970 painted wood, plaste Hofstra Museum American
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George Segal - Man on a Printing Press 1971 plaster and mixed me Des Moines Art Center American
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George Segal - Girl on Chair 1970 cast plaster and pai Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - Girl Resting 1970 plaster guaze Ackland Art Museum American
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George Segal - Kissing her Cheek 1975 Plaster Relief Birmingham Museum of Art American
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George Segal - Kneeling Torso 1964 pastel Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - Reclining Blue Nude 1964 pastel on colored pa Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - Purple Nude Torso I 1964 pastel on colored pa Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - Purple Nude Torso II 1964 pastel on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - Abraham's Farewell to Ishmael 1987 Painted plaster Miami Art Museum American
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George Segal - Physician And Arthritis Patient 1994 plaster Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - Nude Behing Shower Curtains 1963 pastel on colored pa Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Segal - Crouching Blue Nude (Blue Nude Accroupie) 1964 pastel on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Biddle, George Santayana (profile), 1952
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George Romney, George, First Marquis of Townshend, 1792
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George Vertue, King George, defender of the Faith, after Knoeller, 1807
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George Vertue, Sr. George Lisle, General, 17th - 18th century
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George B. Shaw, George Heriote, 19th - 20th century
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A Young Knight of the Garter, Possibly George Augustus (1683-1760), Later George II of Great
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George Vertue, George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, 17th - 18th century
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Benjamin West - George III 1783 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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George Biddle, Catfish Row, 1936
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington 1786-1793 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1796 oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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James McNeill Whistler - George W. Vanderbilt 1897-1903 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Ray George, Box I, 1974
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington 1787 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1803-1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington c. 1786 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum
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Gilbert Stuart - George Pollock 1793-1794 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Sir Henry Raeburn - Mrs. George Hill c. 1790-1800 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (11)
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University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach: The UAM Diaries: 1973-2004 The Glenn Years
In addition, a number of exhibits that the UAM has traveled to museums throughout America, including The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties; Time Dust, James Rosenquist; The Complete Graphics 1962-1992; Frederick Sommer at Seve...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: Territories: Issues of Space
Participants: An Architektur, Ariella Azoulay, Amir Balaban, Sharon Balaban, Yael Bartana, Daniel Bauer, Stefano Boeri, Zvi Efrat, Nadav Harel, Nir Kafri, Joachim Koester, Milutin Labudovic, Armin Linke, Multiplicity, Sharon Rotbard, Rafi Segal, E...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Women of Stone: Harriet Feigenbaum and Barbara Segal
Barbara Segal's incredibly detailed work displays her whimsical sense of humor displayed via her tour de force ability to depict reality. For this exhibition, she has chosen to pres...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Pop Impact - From Johns to Warhol
Considered controversial when it first emerged in the 1950s and 60s, Pop Art broke the rules by shunning abstraction in general and returning to recognizable subject matter, yet the subjects Pop artists chose—Coke bottles, billbo...
Detroit Contemporary: LINK: the exhibition
The Detroit Contemporary believes that the culmination of this work will act as a dynamic representation of Detroit's contemporary arts, as well as serving as a link throughout the area's arts communities. Participating Artists Kyohe...
Malmo Konsthall: Territories, The Frontiers of Utopia and Other Facts on the Ground
Territories’ description of space thus creates insights into the working of today’s political, economical and military strategies beyond what appears as the daily content in the newspapers. In Malmö Konsthall photographs, videos, cartography and m...
Columbia Museum of Art: POP IMACT! From Johns to Warhol
Included in the exhibition, are icons of the '60s by 17 notable artists including Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselman, Robert Indiana, Marisol, Edward Ruscha, George Segal and Wayne Thiebau...
Index - Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation: Territories, Frontiers and the Architecture of Warfare
Index’s first exhibition for the autumn focuses on the construction of the frontier as a concept in contemporary geo-politics. A frontier that can no longer be considered as a solid line between two geographic areas and bears no relation to the in...
Milwaukee Art Museum: POP Impact: from Johns to Warhol
Pop Impact! From Johns to Warhol looks at Pop imagery from different perspectives, encouraging visitors to examine the movement's defining characteristics elements such as scale and seriality as well as such atypical Pop approaches as the...
Housatonic Museum of Art: A Retrospective: Large oils 1985-2003 by Michael Hafftka
Some have seen that work as depicting a deeply disturbing, chaotic world of existential suffering and despair mitigated only by the unflinching compassionate eye of the artist and the beholder. Others have seen it as revealing, amid that very suff...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

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