This sculpture named The Breadline was created by sculptor George Segal.
He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.
The five male figures lined up by the wall on the sculpture pad represent a scene from the Great Depression, a period of economic hardship during which many people needed government assistance to survive. 'Depression Breadline' was cast in bronze at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture (now The Seward Johnson Atelier) in 1999. 'Breadline' sculpture by George Segal at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington DC USA 'White Angel Breadline' San Francisco, California, Photographed in the winter of … The Depression Breadline sculpture telling story of the U.S. of the depression during his second term of his presidency.
Download this stock image: Breadline sculpture by George Segal at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington DC USA - B87796 from Alamy's library of millions of … Depression Breadline sculpture, Washington DC Picture: Depression Breadline by George Segal - Check out Tripadvisor members' 50,539 candid photos and videos of Depression Breadline sculpture George Segal created two other sculptures for the FDR … George Segal (November 26, 1924 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. "George Segal is a very important artist in his own right," Foster said, "having adapted figurative sculpture to everyday settings in a way that allowed the medium to become contemporary again, to speak to a Pop age of alienation as well as entertainment. The Breadline - Created by Sculptor Georg Segal - Located in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
Just to look at the line of people waiting for food stirs my emotional of sympathy of the generation that lived through the time. Although Segal started his art career as a painter, his best known works are cast life-size figures and the tableaux the figures inhabited.