George Thaddeus Saj lives and works in Montclair, N J, where he practiced surgery for 31 years. His formal art education started at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts and continued at Dartmouth College. However, Saj realized early on that most artists need a day job and enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. After residency training and service as a staff surgeon at a U.S. Army hospital in Danang, Viet Nam, he settled in New Jersey. Since his retirement from surgery in 2004, Saj has returned to art full time.
His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Cleveland, Chicago, N
Queen of Hearts
Queen of Hearts
Sculpture
owl of the night
owl of the night
Sculpture
The Challenger
The Challenger
Sculpture
This young lion is at the verge of challenging the alpha male of his pride for dominance. He knows that is his destiny. Yet the realization that only one of them will emerge gives him a momentary pause before he lunges.
Einstein
Einstein
Sculpture
Even in his lifetime Einstein became a cult figure, a household name, and part of everyday culture. ….when people stopped him in the street, he usually replied: "Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.”
phoenix burning
phoenix burning
Sculpture
The idea of “trial by fire” appeals to us.
It suggests courage and resolve and danger.
That moment of final abandon
to a hazardous cause, against all odds,
demands absolute faith or…madness.
Romantics, with their sense of destiny,
cannot resist it.
toro bravo
toro bravo
Sculpture
Hommage au Picasso
Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov
Sculpture
Tsar of Russia
Scion of the Golden Horde
Fashionable Lion
Fashionable Lion
Sculpture
With the growing popularity of camera safaris to the
Serengeti, this lion has given up his savage demeanor.
He has taken to blow-drying his mane, doing his nails
and striking heroic poses on rocky outcroppings.
He is hoping to have his picture published on the covers
of fashionable glossy magazines.
His pride tolerates this eccentric makeover
& behavior as it improved his humor and his aroma.