George Segal, Fragments, Plaster Sculpture

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Artist: George Segal (1924-2000) Title: Fragments Year: 1970 Medium: Plaster Cast Size: 15" x 9" x 12" tall 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 heydey 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 Institute of Design, Rutgers, and New York University in classes taught by Tony Smith and William Baziotes. In 1948, he married, had two children, and began running his own New Jersey chicken farm while teaching art classes locally. He began his career as a painter of large-scale nudes in expressionist style but changed to sculpture in 1961 when one of his read more

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