George Segal (artist)

George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.

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 Pratt, Cooper Union, and New York University, from which he graduated in 1949 with a teaching degree. In 1946 he married Helen Segal and they bought another chicken farm in South Brunswick, New Jersey, where he lived for the rest of his life.

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