- Artist or Maker
- George Segal
United States, New York, New York City, 1924-2000 - Title
- Laundromat
- Date Made
- 1966-1967
- Medium
- Plaster, plastic and metal
- Dimensions
- Installation: 85 1/2 × 97 1/4 × 43 1/4 in. (217.17 × 247.02 × 109.86 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2017.291.1-.7a-b
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
George Segal’s Laundromat is one of the American Pop artist’s iconic compositions in which he created plaster-cast figures and installations drawn from everyday life. The reductive whiteness and anonymity of the plaster figure, set against the hard industrial surfaces of the washing machine, trash can, and chairs, hints at an emotional isolation underpinning our experience of mass culture.
- Selected Bibliography
- Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.
- Sidney Janis Presents an Exhibition of New Work by George Segal: opening Wednesday, March 29, 1967, and Continuing Until April 22 at 15 East 57 St., New York. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1967.