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George Segal | |||||||||||
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Title: Still Life (1961) oil on canvas - 96"H x 72"W | |||||||||||
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Title: Spring (1960) oil on canvas - 64"H x 96"W Biography: 1924 - 2000 | |||||||||||
George Segal was born November 26, 1924 in New York City. He studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the Pratt Institute of Design in Brooklyn, and New York University. He began his career as a painter under Hans Hoffmann's influence and in the early 1960's turned to sculpture while barely making a living on his chicken farm in New Brunswick, New Jersey and teaching at nearby Rutgers University. He created a method of casting live models in white plaster casts and placing the figures in unique situations, i.e. seated at a table having coffee. The whole scene became "an environment", props included. His paintings, pastels, sculptures and the wonderful drawings produced in his later years show his ability to advance by concentration and diversification. George Segal's sculptures recall the Grecian origins of western figure sculpture and he will certainly remain an important artist in this tradition. | |||||||||||
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