A sculptor noted for life-sized white plaster figures cast from life, frozen in a gesture or pose and often juxtaposed with colorful, real everyday environments, George Segal began his career as a... Read full biography
A sculptor noted for life-sized white plaster figures cast from life, frozen in a gesture or pose and often juxtaposed with colorful, real everyday environments, George Segal began his career as a painter. However, he changed to sculpture because he wanted to create objects he could touch and to... Read full biography
A sculptor noted for life-sized white plaster figures cast from life, frozen in a gesture or pose and often juxtaposed with colorful, real everyday environments, George Segal began his career as a painter. However, he changed to sculpture because he wanted to create objects he could touch and to take sculpture off the pedestal. Most of his figures are white and appear to be bandaged. During the 'hay-day' of Abstraction, he held to a representational style, with some in the 1960s calling him a... Read full biography
A sculptor noted for life-sized white plaster figures cast from life, frozen in a gesture or pose and often juxtaposed with colorful, real everyday environments, George Segal began his career as a painter. However, he changed to sculpture because he wanted to create objects he could touch and to take sculpture off the pedestal. Most of his figures are white and appear to be bandaged. During the 'hay-day' of Abstraction, he held to a representational style, with some in the 1960s calling him a Pop Artist. He was born in the Bronx of New York where his father was a kosher butcher during the Depression. Showing aptitude in science, he attended Stuyvesant High school, known for its graduating of high achieving students. During World War II, he... Read full biography
A sculptor noted for life-sized white plaster figures cast from life, frozen in a gesture or pose and often juxtaposed with colorful, real everyday environments, George Segal began his career as a painter. However, he changed to sculpture because he wanted to create objects he could touch and to take sculpture off the pedestal. Most of his figures are white and appear to be bandaged. During the 'hay-day' of Abstraction, he held to a representational style, with some in the 1960s calling him a Pop Artist. He was born in the Bronx of New York where his father was a kosher butcher during the Depression. Showing aptitude in science, he attended Stuyvesant High school, known for its graduating of high achieving students. During World War II, he took time off from school to help his dad run a family chicken farm in New Jersey. He studied art in New York at Cooper Union, the Pratt... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (152)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection
2002
Shea, Patricia (Editor)
124 pages
Cast of Characters: Figurative Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Hall, Dawn (editor)
62 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Pop Art A Critical History
1997
Madoff, Steven Henry (editor)
420 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
1996
Ratcliff, Carter
352 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Making It New Essays, Interviews and Talks
1994
Geldzahler, Henry
369 pages
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1994
National Gallery of Art
283 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
The William S Paley Collection Museum of Modern Art
1992
Oldenburg, Richard/W Rubin
180 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989) (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien
468 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
George Segal (adapted from Hunter/Hawthorne 1984)
1989
Hunter, Sam
128 pages (color)
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
1987
Levin, Gail
407 pages (color)
The Empire State Collection Art for the Public
1987
Sandler, Irving
214 pages (color)
125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox
1987
Schultz, Douglas (Intro)
264 pages (color)
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
The Window in Twentieth Century A (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Delehanty, Suzanne
105 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
50 New York Artists
1986
Marshall, Richard
118 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Definitive Statements: American Art 1964-66 Brown University Department of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Plante, Michael; Christopher Campbell, Megan Fox, et all
181 pages
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
Twentieth Century Artists on Art
1985
Ashton, Dore (Editor)
302 pages
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Artwords Discourse on the 60s and 70s
1985
Siegel, Jeanne
235 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Haskell, Barbara
160 pages
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
George Segal
1984
Hunter, Sam/Don Hawthorne
379 pages (color)
Jewish Experience In the Twentieth Century
1984
Kampf, Avram
240 pages (color)
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Mary and William Sisler Collectio (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Naumann, Francis M
324 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
George Segal
1983
Tuchman, Phyllis
128 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
Twenty-Five Artists
1982
Messer, Thomas/Arlene Bujese
108 pages
Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
1982
Von Blum, Paul
165 pages
Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors (Surrey Art Gallery)
1982
Young, Jane
32 pages
American Art Theory 1945-1970
1981
Buettner Stewart
213 pages
The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Danoff, Michael/C K Carr
102 pages (color)
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 pages (color)
Inside Out Self beyond Likeness (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Newport Harbor Art Museum
103 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Meanings of Modern Art
1981
Russell, John
429 pages (color)
The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980
1980
Barnett, Vivian Endicott
526 pages (color)
Shock of the New: The Hundred Years History of American Art Its Rise, Dazzling Achievement, Its Fall
1980
Hughes, Robert
423 pages (color)
Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience
1980
Institute of Contemporary Art
64 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Documents, Drawings, and Collages Fifty American Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Butler, Hiram (others)
123 pages
Inside New York's Art World
1979
Diamonstein, Barbaralee
380 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
George Segal (revised edition)
1979
Van Der Marck, Jan
257 pages (color)
Art of the Sixties
1978
Adams, Hugh
80 pages (color)
Why Art? A Guide to Viewing Contemporary American Art
1978
Daniels, Florence
222 pages
Art About Art
1978
Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall
176 pages (color)
American Realism
1978
Mathey, Francois
192 pages
The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties
1978
Sandler, Irving
366 pages (color)
Tenth Street Days The Co-Ops of the 50's (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Bard, Joellan
80 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
The Chosen Object European and American Still Life (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Cloudman, Ruth H
66 pages
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Dillenberger, Jane & John
175 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
American Art in Belgium (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Societe des Expositions
175 pages (color)
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
The Art of America Since World War II
1976
Glubok, Shirley
48 pages
Beyond Modern Art
1976
Gottlieb, Carla
434 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values
1976
Johnson, Ellen H
240 pages
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
Topics in American Art Since 1945
1975
Alloway, Lawrence
283 pages
The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century
1975
Cone, Michele
252 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA
1975
Legg, Alicia
84 pages (color)
Art on the Edge Creators and Situations
1975
Rosenberg, Harold
303 pages
George Segal
1975
Van Der Marck, Jan
233 pages
History of Collage An Anthology of Collage, Assemblage & Event Sructures
1975
Wolfram, Eddie
192 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
1974
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
80 pages
A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s
1974
Busch, Julia
236 pages (color)
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change
1974
Schwartz, Barry
192 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development
1973
Johnson, Charlotte Buel
96 pages (color)
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
American Art Third Quarter Century (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Van Der Marck, Jan
138 pages (color)
Three Generations of 20th Century Art Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, MOMA
1972
Barr, Alfred/ W Rubin
231 pages (color)
American Art of the 20th Century
1972
Hunter, Sam
487 pages (color)
Eroticism in Contemporary Art
1972
Kahmen, Volker
282 pages (color)
Politics in Art
1972
Mondale, Joan Adams
72 pages (color)
Contemporary Art 1942-72
1972
Sandler, Irving (intro)
479 pages (color)
Segal
1972
Seitz, William C
96 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Icons and Images of the Sixties
1971
Calas, Nicolas and Elena
347 pages
American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Boston University
60 pages
New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Geldzahler, Henry
494 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Lieberman, William
139 pages (color)
Pop Art Redefined (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Russell, John/Suzi Gablik
240 pages (color)
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
1968
Weller, Allen S
185 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
Modern American Sculpture
1967
Ashton, Dore
130 pages (color)
Art and Tradition The Jewish Artist in America
1967
Grossman, Emery
176 pages (color)
Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
1967
Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh
342 pages
New York/The New York Art Scene
1967
Mulas, Ugo/Alan Solomon
341 pages
American Art Since 1900 A Critical History
1967
Rose, Barbara
320 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
New Art Around the World
1966
Hunter, Sam (chapter on US)
510 pages (color)
Pop Art
1966
Lippard, Lucy R
216 pages (color)
Pop Art . . . And After
1965
Amaya, Mario
148 pages (color)
A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Whitney Museum
52 pages
Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey
1964
Gerdts, William H
276 pages
The Anxious Object Art Today and Its Audience
1964
Rosenberg, Harold
272 pages
Gardens of Art: The Sculpture Park at the Frederik Meijer Gardens