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Museums page for George Segal ((1924 - 2000)), known for Sculptor-plaster figure. Showing 27 museum collections and exhibitions.
George Segal MUSEUMS
1924 Bronx, New York - 2000 South Brunswick, New Jersey. Known for: Sculptor-plaster figure.
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
George Segal - Artist Info
About George Segal: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (27)
All MuseumsAckland Art Museum, University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Campus Box 3400
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3400Akron Art Museum
70 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44308-2084Boca Raton Museum of Art
Mizner Park
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146McNay Art Museum
6000 North New Braunfels Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78209-0069Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1219 Sw Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Sangre De Cristo Arts Center
210 N Santa Fe Avenue
Pueblo, CO 81003Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10128The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Empire State Plaza Art Collection
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12242The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002The University Of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses
University Avenue and 5th St.
Oxford, MS 38655Tucson Museum of Art
140 N. Main Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85718UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014