"Pop Artist" George Segal Hand Signed 4X6 Postcard COA For Sale

Up for sale "Pop Artist" George Segal Hand Signed 4X6 Postcard. This item is certified authentic by Todd

Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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George

Segal (November 26,

1924 – June 9, 2000) was an with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with the United

States National Medal of Arts in

1999. Although Segal started his art career as a painter, his best known works

are cast life-size figures and the tableaux the figures inhabited. In place Segal pioneered the use gauze

strips designed for making Jeff orthopedic casts he could use) as a sculptural medium. In

this process, he first wrapped a model with bandages in sections, then removed

the hardened forms and put them back together with more plaster to form a

hollow shell. These forms were not used as molds; the shell itself became the

final sculpture, including the rough texture of the bandages. Initially, Segal

kept the sculptures stark white, but a few years later he began painting them,

usually in bright monochrome colors. Eventually he

started having the final forms cast in bronze, sometimes patinated white to resemble the original plaster. Segal's

figures have minimal color and detail, which give them a ghostly, melancholic appearance. In larger works, one or more

figures are placed in anonymous, typically urban environments such as a street

corner, bus, or diner. In contrast to the figures, the environments were built

using found objects. Segal was born in New York; his Jewish parents were immigrants from Eastern

Europe. His parents ran a butcher shop in the Bronx, then moved to a poultry farm in New Jersey where Segal grew up. He attended Stuyvesant High School, as

well as the Pratt Institute, the Cooper Union,

and New York University, from

which he graduated in 1949 with a teaching degree. In 1946, he married Helen

Steinberg and they bought another chicken farm in South Brunswick, New

Jersey, where he lived for the rest of his life. During

the few years he ran the chicken farm, Segal held annual picnics at the site to

which he invited his friends from the New York art world. His proximity to

central New Jersey fostered friendships with professors from the Rutgers University art

department. Segal introduced several Rutgers professors to John Cage, and took part in Cage's legendary experimental

composition classes. Allan Kaprow coined

the term happening to describe the art

performances that took place on Segal's farm in the Spring of 1957. Events

for Yam Festival also

took place there. His widow, Helen Segal, kept his memory and works alive,

until her death in 2014, through the George and Helen Segal Foundation. The

foundation continues this mission. George and Helen have three children.