George Segal was born in November 1924 in New York. He was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. Segal earned the National Medal of Art in 1999. He is renowned for his life-size cast figures, in which he pioneered the use of plaster bandages, (plaster-impregnated gauze strips designed for making orthopedic casts), as a sculptural medium. From the 1950's until his death in 2000, Segal lived on a chicken farm in South Brunswick Township, New Jersey with his wife Helen Segal.   

Woman on Park Bench, 1998
Bronze with white patina
Gift of the George and Helen Segal Foundation
Fabrication costs provided by The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, Frederick and Jane Jamieson, ‘74/’75, Soteria and George N. Kledaras, ‘87, in memory of Antonia Kledaras, Martha Connelly Leitner and Paul N. Leitner, ‘76, Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr., ‘59, Christie and Ronald J. Ulrich, ‘66
Asa Packer Campus: Memorial Walkway

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