- Born in New York in 1924
- In 1946 Segal married Helen Steinberg and bought a chicken farm in South Brunswick. He worked the farm and started creating his life-sized white plaster sculptures made from casts of living models in 1961
- In 1963 George Segal hosted the YAM Festival (May backwards) on his farm. The festival was a multimedia avant garde event. The YAM festival was held 23 years before the Burning Man festival. He was truly ahead of his time
- Segal’s sculptures are on display at locations and museums around the world. Some of the notable places are the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan, and closer to home, the Princeton University campus, the Grounds for Sculpture, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C and the South Brunswick Library
- For more information visit The George and Helen Segal Foundation
“My teachers said the role was to make art more abstract, I disagreed with the idea of art being abstract. Our experience of being alive in this world is too marvelous.”The Central Post, August 22nd 1996