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Please click to enlarge	105 THOMPSON STREET Pencil, watercolor. Dated 7/7/71 at bottom. I lived in a small 3 room apt on Thompson Street in Little Italy (two blocks south of Houston Street & about 4 blocks south of NYU & Washington Square Park) on & off from late '68 thru end of summer '72 when I moved to Illinois. The Thompson St buildings were built as tenements for immigrant workers around 1910. Rumor had it that the then-elderly Italian-born woman on the top floor had never left Thompson Street during all the decades she lived there. On entering the apt & turning on the lights, hundreds of partying New York cockroaches would flee. The bathtub (seen at right) was just inside the entry door, which was in the kitchen. The larger bedroom had a window which faced a brick wall about 8 feet away - a splendid view, but a little light actually came in my 3rd floor walkup. The toilet was behind the small room which is behind the yellow/green door in the watercolor; it had an old style elevated tank with a metal pull chain to flush. Collection of the artist
Please click to enlarge	FIRST YEAR COLLEGE ART DEPT. CLASS DRAWING ASSIGNMENT 1972 White & black conte on paper 25" H x 18 7/8" W I began my college art studies at Parkland Community College in Champaign, Illinois. The instructor told us to choose one room at home and draw the floor, each of the four walls and everything in the room. I chose the bathroom in the old house I was living in - the walls had vertical wood strips and the room was small enough that it offered an easy overview. It was a very challenging assignment and I'd recommend it for art teachers/professors to use with incoming art students. Collection of the artist.
Please click to enlarge	BUBBY & ZADIE'S, CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS 1973 Etching on copper 11 3/4" H x 17 3/" W Signed in the plate at upper center in a picture frame: Bubby & Zadie's Ken Segan An etching professor at the UofI Art dept let me attend a beginning etching class as a non-matriculated guest. I did one etching, which wasn't finished beyond the first line etch and a bit of aquatinting seen at top and bottom. The proof seen at left is the only one I recall proofing; the plate was lost decades ago. I spent a lot of time "hanging out" at B&Z's and at the Red Herring coffeehouse during the two years I lived in Champaign. I also worked a job at B&Z's making sandwiches, cutting meats, cashiering and doing cleanup. I also took up cigarette smoking there at age 22, one of the more stupid things I ever did.
Please click to enlarge	THE CAFETERIA, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE 1974 Color reduction linocut. 12" H x 12" W Drawn on site on the linoleum at the student union cafeteria. Corporate Collection: Hillcrest Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma One extant proof: $150.
Please click to enlarge	Please click to enlarge ALLYN ART BUILDING AT S.I.U. 1975. Ink, watercolor. The white light on the image was from the camera flash. Segan family collection.
Please click to enlarge	MORRIS LIBRARY READING LOUNGE, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE 1974 or '75 Linoleum block print. \|Size: approx 6" H x 11" W No proofs are available
Please click to enlarge	MORRIS LIBRARY, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE 1976. Ink on paper 18" H x 24" W (unframed) The original drawing from which the 1976 etching & aquatint of the same title was drawn from. Drawn on-site in the library when the artist was a sophomore. The artist pledges half the purchase price to scholarships for SIU-C alumni association for general scholarships and to the School of Art & Design for art department scholarships on purchase of the work as a gift to Morris Library... as an accompaniment to the etching (below) which the artist presented to the university in 1980. Very good condition. $1,500.
1976 18" H x 24" W. Only known proof (upper left) Please click to enlarge	MORRIS LIBRARY (etching state I) Benefactor sought to present this etching to Southern Illinois University's Morris Library to accompany the framed etching (seen below) which was presented by the artist as a gift to SIU & Morris Library in 1979. (Gifts of artwork are tax deductible!).
Please click to enlarge 1976 Hand colored etching, with colored pencils. 18" H x 24" W.	MORRIS LIBRARY (etching, final state)
Please click to enlarge 1976 Ink. 30" H x 40" W "My Bicentennial Artwork" The etching: Private collections: Artists Proofs: Beth Stein (aka Elizabeth Stein) Stan Miller Helen Korovesis Nina Dodig Eugene & Tracy Holtzman Kim Heithoff's brother in Iowa David Ring Bradley & Sharon Fugate Larry of Rainbow Leather Goods, Columbia, MO Robert Whittet The Etching, Numbered edition: 1/100 through 3/100 Whereabouts unknown - unknown if these were printed or not 4/100 Ed McCarton 5/100 Rabbi Shlomo & Chaya Cotler 6/100, 7/100 whereabouts unknown 8/100 Charles Markman 9/100 Mark Meier 10/100 John Bator 10/100 Sandy Todd (duplicate ed. number) 11/100 Dr Rebecca (Becky) Jones 12/100 Lee Singer 13/100 Joseph Giordano Jr (aka Joe Giordano) 14/100 President Jimmy Carter 15/100 Allan Kopelson	AMERICA, AMERICA, SING ME THE SONG OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE! When I was a young boy my family and I always sang the George Washington Bridge Song when we drove from NYC to Englewood, NJ to visit my mom's parents... over the George Washington Bridge. As an adult I taught this rousing & very moving song to friends, acquaintances and even strangers in northeast Scotland, the American midwest. the Pacific Northwest, and in Krakow, Poland. This image was later made into an etching, ca 1976. The artist hopes to restore the original 30" x 40" rapidiograph drawing from which the etching was based...the drawing was partially destroyed some years ago. The etching, Institutional & Corporate Collections: Mid-Missouri Legal Services, Columbia, Missouri (Artists Proof) Warner-Lambert Corporation, Morris Plains, N.J. (ed 17/100) The Etching, Numbered edition, continued from left column: 16/100 Rabbi Shlomo & Chaya Cotler 17/100 (see above - Corporate collection) 18/100 Stanley & Isolde Shiebert (unique proof with hand coloring) 19/100 David & Ryna Alexander 20/100 Linda Levenson O'Rourke 21/100 Laurie Bruce & Peter Titcomb 22/100 Laurie Brown & Nick Gallo 23/100 Geri Loper 24/100 Larry & Theresa Michel 25/100 Allen Galant & Maria Pia 26/100 Janna L. Potter 27/100 Phil Cortese 28/100 Susan Auerbach 29/100 Kevin Harvey 30/100 Dan Flasar 31/100 George & THeresa Wyatt, Aberdeen, Scotland 32/100 Joe Yee 33/100 Wherabouts unknown 34/100 Whereabouts unknown 35/100 Dan Baer 36/100 Pam Dusenberry 37/100 - 100/100 were never printed
Please click to enlarge 1976 Ink, 16 ½"H X 24"W	ALLYN ART BUILDING, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE Drawn on-site outside the Allyn Building. One of two artworks I drew onsite depicting the art department building on campus. Good condition; acetated on board. If purchased as a gift for the university, the artist pledges 50% to School of Art & Design scholarships. $300.
Please click to enlarge 1976. Etching. 20" H x 16" W There were not more than ten proofs pulled before the plate was destroyed.	BRIDGE & FOLIAGE FANTASY 1976. Etching. 20" H x 16" W There were not more than ten proofs pulled before the plate was destroyed. Private collections: Rob & Jane Madell Segan family collection Dr. Michael & Marla Reed Yoram Joshua Sean O'Donnell Nancy Dick Carlson Ken & Helen Kagan Dan Marks One proof is available, excellent condition: $2,000.
Please click to enlarge	CARBONDALE GRAINERY 1976 Size: 10"H x 16"" W Zinc plate etching with a bit of electric engraving in the sky sections in upper left & right. Only two proofs were printed & the plate destroyed. Private collection: SIU alum Dennis Adamcyzk. The other was bought by a former SIU art dept professor in ’76 who moved to Virginia in Dec. ’76.
Please click to enlarge	CARBONDALE GRAINERY 1976 Color reduction woodcut 10" x 16"W Edition records state there were 14 numbered proofs 1/14-14/14 and two Artists Proofs. Three are in private collections; whereabouts of the others unknown. My edition records book (updated in 1988 or thereabouts] states two proofs were destroyed. The grainery, within walking distance at the north end of town, was a favorite subject for me, which I’d walk to with my drawing board. With color reduction linocut printing, a technique made famous by Picasso, you must print however many you want in the edition with the first (and lightest color); you end up with that many less any prints that don’t print well. Two extant proofs, the better condition one: $200. One more worn, $150.
Please click to enlarge	CARBONDALE GRAINERY 1976. Rapidiograph Ink. 12 ¼"H x 16 ½"W One of at least 3 ink drawings I did of the grainery. This drawing had to have been drawn in the post-rapidograph phase of my undergrad art student years. Before I graduated in summer ’77, of my art professors hokked-me-a-Chinik (translation from Yiddish: "yakked at me") that I should cease rapidiograph drawing & use metal pen nibs, pen holders & bottled India ink ~ using old fashioned traditional ink drawing methods. I haven’t used a rapidiograph since, although I’ve been promising myself for years that I’d give them a whirl again. In excellent condition: on board with acetate covering. $300.
Please click to enlarge	CARBONDALE GRAINERY 1976. Rapidiograph Ink. Size unknown. Private Collection: Bob (Robert) Gambino, SIU Design School alum
Please click to enlarge	THE BRIDGE, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 1977 Etching, hand-colored with watercolor 18" H x 12" W. I forget what bridge this was exactly - somewhere near Cobden? Public collection: University of Illinois, Illini Student Union, Urbana (edition no. 7/100) Corporate Collection: R.H. Reel Co., Seattle (edition no. 6/100) Private collections: Ten proofs were purchased by Larry MacAtee of Murphysboro, Illinois and sold to private collectors in southern Illinois; the owners names are not known by the artist. A.P. Ruth Berkbigler AP - Dan D. Wood AP Joseph Giordano, Jr. Numbered proofs: 1/100 to 4/100 Whereabouts unknown - it is not known if they were printed or not 5/100 Kris Leinbach 6/100 (see corporate collection, above) 7/100 (see public collection, above) 8/100 Craig Leighton & Joyce 9/100 whereabouts unknown 10/100 Jack Donnelly 11/100 Roy & Judy Sender 12/100 Monica Frost 13/100 Henry Friedman 14/100 Joan Prugh 15/100 through 100/100 were never printed One extant proof: $400.
Please click image to enlarge	SAINT LOUIS CATHEDRAL 1977-78 Color aquatint etching 22 ½" H x 35" W The artwork seen at left was deliberately torn down from a rectangular 24x36" etching proof. This may be the only extant proof. The cathedral's famed stained glass windows is seen on the right. Framing recommendation: Mat with off-white linen-fabric mat with a rounded beige or black wood moulding. $500.
Please click to enlarge	SAINT LOUIS CATHEDRAL 1977-78 Ink & gouache on paper mounted on pale blue matboard with stitching 22" H x 30" W Private Collection: Robert Whittet & family
Please click to enlarge	CONSTRUCTION: THE JOURNALISM SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT COLUMBIA 1978. Etching & aquatint 24" H x 36" W, with 8 additional etched plates inserted in the main plate Drawn on site on an asphalt-grounded zinc etching plate, Sept. '78, on campus as the "J-School's" new building was underway - in the girder and beam stage. It was the first etching I did there while in graduate school at MU. A proof was presented to the late Dean of the J School before I graduate and was inscribed: "To the students, staff and faculty of the Journalism School ~ Ken Segan, August '80." The etching was found some years later by a now former administrator by name of Sally Malloy. In 1996-97 the J-school administrators said they don't know where it is, although it's unclear if anyone actually looked for it. Corporate Collection: Warner-Lambert Corporation, Morris Plains, New Jersey
Please click to enlarge	THE SKY PROJECTOR 1979 or '80 Ink on paper. Approx. 22" H x 28" W Drawn from a black & white photo of the Sky Projector at the St. Louis Planetarium photographed by Missouri native and photographer Linda Joyce Burns. The artwork was at one time titled "The Egg Factory" in ink. Those 3 words were covered with ink but the last time I looked some years ago, you could still read them. Public Collection: The Pacific Science Center, Seattle (gift of the artist).
Please click to enlarge	THE MEMORIAL UNION, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT COLUMBIA 1980. Ink with colored pencil. 28" H x 19" W $300.
Please click to enlarge	THE MEMORIAL UNION, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT COLUMBIA Etching, state I. The only proof printed. 23 3/4" H x 17 3/4" W\| $300.
Please click to enlarge	MEXICO 1980. Etching & aquatint. 17 3/4" H x 23 3/4" W Planned for an edition of 75, only a small number were proofed. Museum collections: Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (Gift of Cindy Draney, SIU alum) Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Israel (ed no. 13/75) Private collections: Dr. Mort Palken Barbara ('Basha') Krajewska and others $500. The only available proof of a very small number that were printed.
Please click to enlarge	UNDER CONSTRUCTION No. 1 (FIRST INTERSTATE TOWER, SEATTLE) 1982 Size: 38" H x 49" W Unframed During Segan's early years in Seattle of the 1980's, Seattle was undergoing a tremendous change downtown with the construction of numerous skyscrapers. "During those years I worked in the the main library downtown and had a studio nearly across the street at the YMCA... I would walk around downtown looking for interesting vistas and buildings to draw. Among works produced in 1982-83 were five large mixed media drawings of First Interstate Tower when it was in the girder & beam construction stages. Years later, First Interstate Bank was sold in the banking wars to another banking corporation. The new owners removed the engraved First Interstate Bank stone at the Third Avenue side of the building and replaced it with a new engraved stone in the new owners name. In 2003, the last time I looked, it was Wells Fargo Bank. A strikingly beautiful work. $800.
Please click to enlarge	UNDER CONSTRUCTION No. 2 1982-83 Ink, watercolor, colored pencil on paper. The second drawing of five in a series of First Interstate Tower. First Interstate Bank changed ownership; it's now Wells Fargo Bank. Many viewers have noticed a Native American influence on my work with this piece. Framed: $900.
Please click to enlarge	SUCH A LOVELY HARBOR, UNDER CONSTRUCTION NO. 3 1982-83 Approx. 4 ft H x 5 ft W Collection Rainer Bank, Seattle* (*Rainer Bank was sold around 1990 and split into two different banks. Whereabouts unknown.) Rainer Bank's art curator, Jeanne Loughmuller, now deceased, purchased two other large drawings: 'Such A Lovely Harbor,' 'La Terre C'est Bien,' and two large Segan etchings for the collection. The whereabouts of all five artworks is unknown.
Please click to enlarge	UNDER CONSTRUCTION NO. 4 1982-83 First Interstate Tower, downtown Seattle. Approx. 3 1/2 ft H x 5 ft W) Private collection: Bob Eyre
Please click to enlarge	VISIT SEATTLE 1983 Ink, watercolor, pencil on paper Approx. size: 28" H x 38" W Corporate Collection: Daniel's Broiler, Seattle
Please click to enlarge Ink and pencil with "space-travel postage stamps" 24" H x 18" W	S.A.T.A.N. TRACKING ANTENNAE, CAPE CANAVERAL - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA 1989 Drawn on-site at the "NASA spaceship & rocket garden" at Cape Canaveral. While my family saw the sights from inside an a/c tour bus going around America's main installation to the cosmos, I spent the 3 hours drawing this fantastically shaped space vehicle. Private Collection: Michael & Alice Graff
Please click to enlarge	S.A.T.A.N. TRACKING ANTENNAE, CAPE CANAVERAL - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA 1990 Created from the original sketch (see above) in my art studio. Ink, watercolor Size: Approx. 80" H x 30" W Private Collection: Dr. Charles Hale & Dorothy Stansel
	THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING, VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA 2001. Ink on paper. 22 1/2" H x 30" W Drawn on site in front of the Parliament. $400.
Please click to enlarge Private collections: Leah Thorn & Arike Dr. Deborah Schultz Sue Libow Ceice Cooney-Wicket & Bill Wickett Miriam Driss Christopher "Sire" Plumridge & Geri Plumridge Iris & Robert Oliva Nyegosh & Maria Dube	VICTORIA PALACE THEATRE, LONDON Linocut. 2002. Image size: 12" x 12" 44.5 x 42 (cm) Drawn directly on a lino block down the street from the theatre, which is across the street from the Victoria Train Station. The lino was cut in Seattle fall 2002. A striking and beautiful work of very affordable fine art! ___________________________________________________________________ Prints may be purchased in Jerusalem at the St Andrews Scottish Guesthouse, One David Remez Street. The hotel has a framed proof installed for guests to view. Proofs are available at the hotel desk for $60., or equivalent in shekels and pounds sterling. 10% of each sale is pledged to the non profit Sunbula shop in the hotel, which aids Palestinian women's crafts work for economic development. 10% of each sale is also pledged to the Israeli Human rights Organization B'tselem. In North America, prints can be purchased directly from the artist for $60 (please add $10 for tube/postage). Please send checks, money orders or travellers checque to: A. Segan PO Box 1721, Seattle, WA. 98111 If you'd like the print inscribed, please write or type the name(s) the print is to be inscribed to (e.g, to Fiona MacCohen) in block letters and enclose with your order.
Please click to enlarge	LONDON BUILDING, APRIL 26 '02 Ink. Paper size: 10" x 6" Can someone identify this building for me? It's a couple of blocks distance from St Paul's Cathedral. $100.
Please click to enlarge	ST. PANCRAS STATION, LONDON, 20 APRIL '02 Pencil. Paper size: 8 3/8" X X 6 5/8" $100.
Please click to enlarge	THE ARCH, ROYAL PAVILION, BRIGHTON 26 JAN '04 Rapidograph. Paper size: 10 3/4" H x 10" Private Collection: Urania Perez-Freedman & Jonathan Freedman
Please click to enlarge	THE PIER, BRIGHTON, DUSK TO SUNDOWN AND NIGHTLIGHTS, 29 JAN '04 Ink, rapidograph. Paper size: 14" H x 16" W $250.
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