A cluster of life-size, 19th-century plaster figures of people from India.

The ninth takes a hammer and shatters a plaster human figure.

In an alcove below was the white plaster figure that would eventually be shattered.

They display a probing detail, a quality that is the opposite of the plaster figures.

Painted dark green to give the impression that the plaster figure is a bronze, its features are hard to make out in Baghdad's harsh sunlight.

Then there is the problem posed by Ms. Medford's pair of huge plaster figures.

The entrance and roof of this chapel are a riot of small plaster figures.

George Segal's white plaster figures stand at a traffic light, doomed never to "walk."

In his later years he turned to modeling and colouring paper papier-mâché and plaster figures.

George Segal has a second career as a photographer in addition to sculpturing white plaster figures.