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Please click to enlarge	MITCHELL GOLUB ASLEEP 1968 Pen & ink. 10" H x 14" W Mitch was a friend from the neighborhood in Queens and also part of the anti-Vietnam war group at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village. Rumor has it became a musician and lived in the Woodstock, NY area in the 80's and 90's and is now known as Evan Dove. The drawing shows some sense of spatial perspective and use of varied line widths to help make for a more visually exciting drawing.
Please click to enlarge	HOWIE LEWIS IN NEW YORK SUBWAY 1972. Two block two color linocut. The blocks were recently located and beautiful green & black proofs were printed. Private Collections: Stephen Broocks John O'Brien Dvora Slavin and others $50.
Please click to enlarge 1972. Linoleum block print. 5 3/4" H x 7 1/4" W.	VIETNAM SPECIAL NO. 1 My interest in art as a tool for political themes goes back to the roots of my art making. After finishing the print, done when I was a freshman art student at Parkland Community College in Champaign, Illinois, I sent proofs to friends and relatives as an original Seasons Greetings card in December '72. Inspired by a photo of a Vietnamese woman being shot in Vietnam at close range. To my amazement, while looking for something else in the spring of 2003, I found the block, which I hadn't seen in many years. Private Collections: Rob & Jane Madell Mark Almberg & Sarah Staggs (w/ unique ink drawing of Karl) Rina Krasney and others $50.
Please click to enlarge Dated 1973 in pencil in the margin.	VIETNAM SPECIAL NO. 1 To make this multiple image proof, the left side of the block (which shows at right when printed, as woodcut, linocut prints, & etchings show up 'backwards' when they're printed) was cut with a shaped indentation so that when proofs were printed consecutively on one sheet of paper, the images would "lock in" with the preceding one. This was the only proof I made in this manner. The armband was added some years later when I framed the work, as were the late 1960's anti-Vietnam war and 1973 anti-Pinochet in Chile political buttons. On April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated, I went to Manhattan from Queens where I grew up to join thousands of mourners, many students among them, in a memorial march, in his memory. March organizers handed out the "Our King Will Never Die" armbands. Collection of the artist. Would consider selling it for permanent installation in a public institution.
Please click to enlarge Two color woodcut, 1973 Two known extant proofs	SCOTT MUTTER READING AT BUBBY & ZADIE'S DELI, CHAMPAIGN Bubby & Zadie's was a popular deli & coffeehouse in Urbana, Illinois where I worked (cutting meats, making sandwiches, serving them, doing cleanup at closing and cashiering) during my freshman year at Parkland Community College in Champaign. I also hung out there a lot. Scott was a regular patron there. The woodcut originally had books shown in the shelves to viewers left of Scott's head. One of my art teachers said the print was "too busy" and suggested I simplify it. I did and immediately regretted it. I don't recall if I printed any good proofs before the cut, nor if there were printed beyond the one I have from which this slide was taken for the website. Scott's dazzling surrealistic photographs can be seen in the American Museum of Photography website. $500.
Please click to enlarge approx. 12" H x 24" W. My first wood carving, done for a sculpture class at SIU-Carbondale, 1976. Hand-carved laminated pine, treated with linseed oil.	THE SCULPTOR (SCOTT MUTTER READING A NEWSPAPER AT BUBBY & ZADIE'S) Drawn (and then carved) from a woodcut print I created in 1973 while living in Champaign, Illinois. It portrays Scott Mutter, an acquaintance friend who later became nationally known as an art photographer. Scott was doing a lot of photography back then in Champaign-Urbana, surrealistic black & white landscapes with a lot of darkroom negative and print manipulation (many years before computers). I did the original drawing (whereabouts unknown) of Scott while he was reading in Bubby & Zadie's deli on E. Green Street. The drawing was itself was the basis of a woodcut print (of which I have one extant proof). It was from the woodcut print that the sculpture was designed & carved. The figure in the back center is me. Sold to Larry MacAtee in Murphysboro, IL in 1976 who later sold it to someone in the Carbondale-Murphysboro area in '77. Whereabouts unknown.
Please click to enlarge 1974 Linocut 12" H x 12" W Southern Illinois University poster dated Dec 1975: a call for manuscripts, stories and other submissions for The Search, an English department journal please click to enlarge	TOM MOONEY - AMERICAN LABOR HERO (This linocut has also been titled at different times as: TOM MOONEY - POLITICAL PRISONER; THE PRISONER) A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOONEY AND HIS PLACE IN AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY: According to Jeremy Brecher, author of "Accord to Strike!" (South End Press, Cambridge, Mass., '97), Mooney was an AFL official in San Francisco convicted of throwing a bomb into a 1916 preparedness parade, despite the evidency of a photo taken of him standing by a dock a mile away from the scene at exactly the time the bomb was thrown.... During the week of July 4, 1919, strikes were held throughout the U.S. to protest his imprisonment on dubious charges." I'm not sure how many years Mooney spent in prison all told - any info on that from a website viewer will be welcome! ~ Segan, July 2003 Private collections: Mark Almberg & Sarah Staggs and others $50. Please specify: black, blue, purple or red.
please click to enlarge	DRAWING CLASS MODEL STUDIES 1975. Rapidograph From a drawing class with former SIU Art Dept professor Dan D. Wood, who frequently asked folks around town to come pose for classes: The fancier or more unusual the attire, all the more interesting to draw.. from folks with fancy hats to motorcyclists w/ a cycle, right in the classroom. $200.
Please click to enlarge	JERRY BROZOWSKI READING AT THE S.I.U. STUDENT UNION 1976 Linocut. There are proofs in Polska Amerikanski 'Jerzycolour,' & in glorious black & white. The proof pictured includes a "sto 100 zlotych Narodowy Bank Polski" note. A Chicago & Niles, Il. native, Brozowski was a college roommate of Segan during the spring & summer semesters, '75. Private collections: Jerry Brozowski & Jette Brozowski Arnold Dr. Larry Endo Joanne Drapkin Lauren Marcson Alspaugh & the Alspaughs and other collections B&W proofs: $40. Color: $60.
1975 or '76. Etching. Approx. 12" H x 8" W Please click to enlarge	PORTRAIT OF GROUNDSKEEPER, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE An SIU university groundskeeper posed for this etching, An African-American man, I don't recall his name. The Allyn Art building is behind him. This may have been my 2nd or 3rd etching. Private collections: Allan Rosenstein Robert Hawkins, M.S.W. Constance "Connie" Jones Paola Ferate Robert Friedman David J. Alexander, Barrister A.E.[artists edition] 1/10 - 10/10 purchased by Larry McAtee, Murphysboro, Illinois, 1976 who sold all of them in southern Illinois; the names of the people who bought them are not known).
1976. Two-block color woodcut 24" H x 18" W Please click image to enlarge	BIG TWIST AT MERLIN’S, CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS This woodcut was created from a white conte crayon on black paper drawing I did on-site in the late popular, smoke-filled, noisy and densely packed bar and dance joint. The original B7W drawing is in the collection of David Marcial, Manhattan, N.Y. The "Big Twist" band was a Carbondale music scene tradition; Big Twist himself was an African-American singer-musician who played around town with his band through the 70’s. $200.
Please click to enlarge	DAN WEISMANN IN CARBONDALE 1976. Two block color lino. Size: 23 1/8"H x 15 1/8"W A college roommate of the artist at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. $50. Private Collections: Sherry Sass Dan Weismann & other private collections
Please click to enlarge	PORTRAIT OF D. W. 1976, etching. 12" X 18" The first artwork by Segan accepted into a museum exhibit: The 32nd Annual Wabash Valley Regional competition, Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1976. This is also a portrait of Dan Weismann, a friend and college roommate of the artist at SIU. Public Collection: University of Missouri Art Dept Art Collection Private Collections: Father Jack Frerker Margaret & Benn Farquhar Dan D. Wood Ernestina Truller, Barcelona Larry McAtee Dan Weismann John Schmidt Lorne Kotler Prof. Valdek, ed. 7/20 Two extant proofs: One in very good condition, matted and acetated: $150. The other proof is printed slightly light and the paper is a bit worn, $100.
Please click to enlarge	DAN WEISMANN READING 1976 (?) Acrylic on masonite. 24" H x 24" W A rare foray for me with non-mixed media painting, the work was probably created for a painting class assignment. Private collection: Dan Segan & Deanna
Please click to enlarge	ART CLASS STILL LIFE ASSIGNMENT: PLASTER CAST HEAD ON CHAIR WITH CLOTH ca. 1976 Acrylic on masonite, 24" H x 24" W $150.
Please click to enlarge	ALBERT BUSTOS IN CARBONDALE 1976 Ink on paper 24" H x 18" W Albert, from Houston, Texas, was an S.I.U. classmate, majoring in music, and a friend of the artist. In 1976 the drawing was reproduced inside the "Free School' catalog at SIU. Collection of the artist
Please click to enlarge	NANCY DICK OF ALMA, ILLINOIS 1975 or '76. Pencil on drawing tablet page 24" H x 18" W. The drawing always reminded me of drawings by the late British painter Sir Stanley Spencer. Has sizeable areas of discoloration and some foxing; in need of conservation framing. Nancy was my girlfriend at S.I.U. ca. 1975'ish.
1977. Ink & wash on paper, 18" x 24" Please click to enlarge	DAN FLASAR ON DIALYSIS, BARNES HOSPITAL, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Drawn on-site at Barnes Hospital; back then the dialysis machines were the size of VW bugs. A life long kidney patient, Dan and I became friends in Carbondale. Now 54 and in St Louis (in 2003), he is on his third transplant. A founder of an internet chat room several years ago for people with kidney disease, Dan is a role-model for good health through exercise, especially for someone with a life-threatening disease. Drawing whereabouts unknown, possibly destroyed.
Please click to enlarge	EDGAR ALLAN POE 1979. Ink, watercolor, wash Approx 28" H x 20" W Private Collection: Robert Friedman, Columbia, Missouri
Please click to enlarge	MOTHER AND CHILD 1979. Two color etching & aquatint. There were two proofs printed. 24" H x 36" W. Collection: Laura & Rick Shelton, California The proof seen at left is available for purchase: a tad worn & quite rare. Backboarded and acetated. $500.
Please click to enlarge 1979. Etching with linocut. 24" H x 18" W.	DREAM! OH DREAM! OF SAILING SHIPS & SHINING SEAS! YES, INDEED! My art dept. classmate Brad Fugate was asleep on a couch in the art dept. late one night when I had one more etching to create from start to finish the evening before final review. I drew him directly on a grounded zinc plate, etched it into the early morning, then printed it. Turning it vertically, it made a dynamic composition. The lino was added to the shirt area later, as was all the aquatinting in his arm, in the sky and above - the ship in a bottle. Twenty five proofs were printed, as follows: Public Collection: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock (AP - first state proof) Artists Proofs, private collections: Allen Galant & Maria Pia Dan Willett Brad & Sharon Fugate Robert Moskowitz & Marjorie Eugene & Tracy Holtzman John Schmidt Dr Larry Kantner Gino Gianola & Esther Herst Robert Friedman (printed in violet & black ink; also has a second unsigned proof printed in orange & sepia ink) Numbered proofs, private collections: Ist state proof: Susan Auerbach 1/140 Brooke Bulovsky Cameron 2/140 Larrk Clark 3/140 Herbert Fink 4/140 was renumbered as 4/50 in 1985, private collection: Jeanette Gorman 5/50 Ray Neinstein 6/50 Rev Robert & Denise Schmalzle (aka Rev Dr & Mrs Jefe Schmalzle) 7/50 Jan & Barbara Pamula 8/50 Thomas (Tomasz) Hollowak 9/50 Elwin (EZ) Zimmerman 10/50 Sooze Bloom No additional proofs were printed.
Please click to enlarge 1980. 36" x 24" Color aquatint-etching over ink drawing.	TORSO Whereabouts unknown.
Please click to enlarge	THE VISOR 1980. Etching and aquatint. 23 1/2" H x 17 1/2" W Private Collections: Alfred & Kathy Gay, Germany Craig Hetler Allan Rosenstein Linda Joyce Burns Ruth Berkbigler Karen Lowenstein, Israel
Please click to enlarge 1981. 23 3/8" H x 17 3/4" W Early state: all line - before the fish skeleton was etched at top.	PORTRAIT OF BELA BARTOK Three proofs were pulled: 1. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 2. Collection of Esther Warkow. 3. The third early state proof, seen at left, is available for a donor to present to an art museum: $500. (a tax deduction is available)
Please click to enlarge	PORTRAIT OF BELA BARTOK 1981. Mid-state proof. Public Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Please click to enlarge	THE DREAM NO 2. The second etching based on an actual dream. Dream No. 1 can be viewed in OSA - Judaic - Self portraits. In this dream, Columbia, Mo housemate & fellow grad student Kim Heithoff of Iowa was bouncing around the house like a kangaroo with his head connected to his neck and from there to his ankle. It was - very surreal. Kim now lives in the east coast and is happily married with 3 kids and reports "I have this dream all the time."
Please click to enlarge Private Collections, State and Artists Proofs: E. John McLeod (State Proof 1/3) Ruth Berkbigler (SP 2/3) Esther Warkow (SP 3/3) Linda Joyce Burns (AP) Rainer Adkins (AP) Dr John & Maryann Schnaidt (AP) Gayle Hiler (AP)	PORTRAIT OF BELA BARTOK 1981. Late state proof. Public Collections: DeCordova & Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts (A.P.) Musee des Beaux Arts, Budapest, Hungary (4/25) Portland Art Museum, Oregon (1/25) Royal Aberdeen Infirmary Collection, Scotland (10/25) Edition, Numbered proofs: 1/25 Portland Art Museum 2/25 [Estate of] Dr Vera Townsend 3/25 whereabouts unknown 4/25 Musee des Beaux Arts 5/25 Kathleen McShary 6/25 Chase (aka Chuck/Charles) Rynd 7/25 Whereabouts unknown 8/25 Esther Warkow 9/25 Nona Hurd Rutter & Dane Rutter 10/25 Royal Aberdeen Infirmary 11/25 Laura Espara 12/25 Gayle Graves No additional proofs were printed; the edition ended at 12/25
Please click to enlarge Etching Plate image: 17 5/8" H x 23 3/4" W Paper: 22 1/8" H x 30 1/8" W Proofs in Private collections: Patrice Demboynes Chuck Reynolds, K.C. Borya Landa, Moscow R. Segan Diane & Moishe Einav Joy Boileau Dr Larry Bornstein Deirdre Phillips Anna Knobloch Dr Brian Kost Pip & Miriam Meyerson Michael & Alice Graff Frank Stack Ruth LaNore Dan McIntosh Allan & Patty Brownstein David & Ryna Alexander Rabbi Jim Mirel Cindy Draney Mike "Frank" Dickerson Kama Almasi Leslie Rae Robert Moskowitz, Calif. Dr Mort Palken Dan Flasar Ramon Schindler, London Allen Kopelson & Robin Zupnick Jessica Reisman Ed Aites Wendy Drucker Carolyn Vanasek Lorenzo Townsend	ALBERT EINSTEIN 1981 Museum Collections: Graphische Sammlung Albertina (Albertina Graphic Arts Collection), Vienna, Austria Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Israel M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia New Jersey State Museum, Trenton National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. There was a unique proof printed over a colored pencil and India ink drawing depicting a Star of David and lettering in German below Einstein’s head. The imagery was "probably drawn in 1983," according to my edition records book; collection of Yoram Joshua, Tel Aviv. The edition of 100 was never completed and less than 50 proofs were printed along with ten Artists Proofs before the plate was destroyed. This is the only extant proof (seen at left): Edition number: 3/100 in pencil in lower left. Very good condition. Mounted on board & acetated. Would be very interested in having a benefactor present it to an art museum in the Pacific Northwest, esp. the Portland Art Museum or Frye Art Museum. $900.
Please click to enlarge 1981 Etching 16" H x 20" W	JOHN BROWN OF HARPER'S FERRY Private collections: A.P. Robert & Ruth Hossack A.P. Chuck Reynolds A.P. George & Renee Mavigliano 1/25 David Marcial, NY 2/25 Natalee Rosenstein 3/25 Billy Mencow, Brookline 4/25 Tom Byers & Carol Lewis 5/25 Charles (Chuck) Rynd, Seattle 6/25 Peter Juvonen, Seattle 7/25 Chuck Landis, Delray Beach 8/25 R. Segan 9/25 whereabouts unknown 10/25 (estate of) Bill Sessions 11/25 whereabouts unknown 12/25 David & Ryna Alexander, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 13/25 Penelope Auge, Seattle 14/25 Robert & Ruth Hossack, Sudbury, Suffolk No other proofs were printed aside from one presented as a gift to someone in Sept or Oct '87; the recipient of this is unknown as is the edition # (it might have been an Artists Proof)
Please click to enlarge	VIETNAM: SUMMER CONCERTO NO 1 1981 Size (approx): 46" x 46" Mixed media lino and drawing Private collection: Ted "Tadeusz" Dzielak & Kate
Please click to enlarge	DELACROIX RIDING THE BUMPER CARS 1981 (?) Aluminum plate litho, hand-colored. Size: Approx 10" x 12" Private collections: Phil Cortese Ruth Berkbigler and others
Please click to enlarge 1982 35 1/2" H x 23 1/2" W	KARL M. (The Monochromatic Starving Karl) Drypoint on zinc 12 prints were pulled in edition of ten of which the first nine were printed; no. 10/10 was not printed, according to edition records. There were 3 Artists Proofs. Monochromatic proofs: 1/10 Cindy Draney, Kansas City (red ink on RIves BFK white) 2/10 Charles (aka "Chuck") Rynd, Seattle (black ink on white paper) 3/10 Michelle Sheehan, Seattle (sepia on white paper) 4/10 - whereabouts unknown (sepia on white Rives BFK) 5/10 Ruth Berkbigler (blue-black ink w/ chopmarks and rubber stamps on bottom below the plate margin) 6/10 Holly Hoffman (sepia or black ink on white paper) 7/10 Ramon Schindler, London & Warsaw (blue black ink) 8/10 Joan Kobayoshi, Seattle (upper right in blue'ish ink; lower left in brownish ink; the 2 colors meet diagonally; on white Rives).
1982. 35 1/2" H x 23 1/2" W Drypoint on zinc. Handcolored with color pencils, printed on buff etching paper.	KARL M. (The Technicolour Well-Fed Karl) Public Collection: Portland Art Museum, Works on Paper Collection, Oregon (hand-colored, A.P.) Hand-colored proofs: 9/10 George & Renee Mavigliano, Carterville, Ill (hand-colored on Rives BFK tan) Three artists Proofs were proofed: A.P., Richard Price, Scotland (hand-colored on RIves BFK tan) A.P. Mat Fahrenholz, Scotland & Warsaw. (Very brightly hand-colored, called "the Psychedelic Karl.")
Please click image to enlarge	TO FREEDOM! 1983 Woodcut proofed in black in ink on white paper, with touches of red & blue ink with two pencil drawings of hands at top. Size: 36" h X 14 3/8" w (at widest point in hand) and 11 1/8" W (at bottom of forearm) The whereabouts of the work reproduced at left (with the hand-pencilling) are unknown $150.
Please click image to enlarge	TO FREEDOM! 1983 woodcut, proofed in autumn 2004 with gold ink on black paper, and uniquely hand-colored with colored penciL. Private collection: Meg Savlov Unique hand-colored proofs: $200. Each hand coloring will be slightly different.
Please click to enlarge	GROUCHO RIDES AGAIN 1982 or '83. Drypoint and etching. 36" H x 24" W Groucho, in the center of the etching, was Inspired by a photo by the photographer Richard Avedon. The rest of the imagery was inspired by my imagination. Only 2 or 3 proofs were printed. Public Collection: Portland Art Museum, Oregon
	IGOR STRAVINSKY DE-MASKED 1983 or '84 Mixed media drawing. Approx. 60" H x 48" W Inspired by a photo by the photographer Richard Avedon. Private Collection: Dr. Mort Palken Please click image to enlarge
	SIGMUND, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS BELOVED COMMON NEWT, ENGAGING IN SOCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH HIS SPINY-TAILED BUTTERFLY FISH. 1983 or '84 Etching & aquatint. Approx. 22" H x 28" W Probably not approved by die-hard Freudians, but very good for them if they choose psychoanalysis. Private collections: Dr. Charles Hale Eric Tabb Dr. Rebecca "Becky" Hale Charles "Chuck" Landis & Jo Blake Ruth Berkbigler Dr. Brian Grant Constance "Connie" Jones Brent Logan David Atherton, Aberdeen, Scotland .
	HONEST ABE DIED FOR OUR SINS 1983 (?) 36" H x 24" W Charcoal, pencil, gouache, colored pencil, with Illinois Statehood and Abraham Lincoln US postage stamps $900.
	HEIDI DRUCKER SLEEPILY WATCHING THE MAGIC FLUTE ON TV 1987 Pencil, colored pencil 14" H x 10 5/8" W $300.