



Exposition. George SEGAL, a Retrospective: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings
19 février 1998 - 17 mai 1998
USA, Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
"The first North American retrospective in twenty years to honor New Jersey-based sculptor
George Segal (b. 1924) comes to the Hirshhorn following its fall 1997 premiere showing at the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Segal's focus on the human condition will be revealed in more
than 60 works, including key examples of his signature white-plaster figurative
tableaux--powerful images of urban alienation that helped establish the artist as a founder of Pop
Art. Also on view will be Segal's diverse explorations in other media: early figure paintings and
sumptuously colored pastels; painted reliefs of the human body; Cubist-inspired still-life
sculptures; and from the 1990s, larger-than-life portrait drawings in pencil and pastel. After
closing in Washington, the exhibition travels to the Jewish Museum in New York and the Miami
Art Museum in Florida."
