GEORGE SEGAL
November 26, 1924 (New York City) – June 9, 2000
EDUCATION: New York Public Schools 1949 - B.A. in Art Education, New York University 1963 - M.FA., Rutgers University, NJ 1970 - Honorary Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Rutgers University, NJ 1992 - Honorary Ph.D. in Fine Arts, S.U.N.Y. Purchase
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The Americas The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY The Jewish Museum, New York, NY The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Federal Office Building, Buffalo, NY Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Cuyahoga County Justice Center, Cleveland, OH Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Des Moines Register and Tribune, Des Moines, IA Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC City of Greenwich, CT
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI Illinois Institute of Technology, ITT Center, Chicago, IL University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA Orton Park, City of Madison, WI, from the Mildred Andrews Fund through the Madison Art Center Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Frederick Weisman Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, LA Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Seventh and Chestnut Associates, Philadelphia, PA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR John B. Putnam, Jr. Memorial Collection, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY PEPSICO Sculpture Gardens, Purchase, NY The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO White Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Seattle Museum of Modern Art, Seattle, WA Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ State of New Jersey, Department of Commerce Building, Trenton, NJ Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Commission Youngstown Area Arts Council, Youngstown, OH Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MI Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Canada The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela
Europe and the Mid-East Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Art Museum of Atenaeum, Helsinki, Finland Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France Musee National d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Germany Suermondt Museum, Aachen, Germany Kolnisches Stadtsmuseum, Cologne, Germany Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany Gewebesammlung der Stadt Krefeld, Germany Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany Stadtische Museum Monchengladbach, Germany Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich, Germany Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany Westdeutsche Spielbanken, Munich, Germany Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany Von Der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Turmhof, Germany Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Museum of Modern Art, Teheran, Iran Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Tel Aviv Foundation for Literature & Art, Mann Auditorium, Israel Hebrew University, Jerusalem Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Far East Fukuoka Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, Karuizawa, Japan The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Central Museum, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan Ohara Museum of Art, Kurahsiki, Japan Ho-Am Museum, Seoul, Korea
AWARDS & HONORS: 1970 Doctor of Fine Arts, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 1979 Award of Excellence, Cheltenham (PA) Art Center 1984 Doctor of Humane Letters, Kean College of New Jersey, Union, NJ 1985 Visual Arts Award, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY 1986 The Mayer Sultzberger Award, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Israel Cultural Award, State of Israel Bonds, New York, NY Israel Achievement Award, World Zionist Organization/American Zionist Organization, New York, NY 1987 Hall of Fame/Rutgers Achievement Award, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ Governor's Walt Whitman Creative Arts Award, State of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ 1988 Alumni Achievement Award, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY National Arts Club Artist Award, New York, NY 1991 Distinguished Alumnus Award, New York University, New York, NY Order of Andres Bello, First Class, The Republic of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela 1992 Visual Arts Award, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Doctor of Fine Arts, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY International Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. New Jersey Pride Award, Outstanding Contribution to the State of New Jersey 1994 Doctor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1997 Praemium Imperiale Award, Tokyo, Japan, Lifetime achievement in the arts. 1999 National Medal of Honor. Washington D.C.