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Article: George Segal 1924-2000.(Obituary)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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When sculptor George Segal, 76, died June 9 in South Brunswick, N.J., after a long illness, he left behind a formidable body of work, ranging from his signature life-size plaster cast figures set in real-life situations to bronzes, oil paintings, black-and-white photographs, pastels, graphics, other types of multiples and charcoal drawings. During the heyday of abstraction, Segal was a representationalist, earning acclaim as a Pop artist in the early 1960s. Besides the popular and critical appeal of his art--he had solo museum exhibitions on four continents, and created many public sculptures--he accrued numerous honors, the most recent being the National Medal of Arts ...