Will van Overbeek
Aggie Spirit

Aggie Spirit

© 1981 Will van Overbeek

Aggie Spirit
Aggie Spirit
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Aggie Spirit
Date1981
PlaceCollege Station, Texas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 5/8 × 17 1/16 in. (29.5 × 43.3 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Texas Monthly and the artist
Object number2000.405
Not on view

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Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThis photograph represents a magazine commission that grew into a book. A year after the photo essay was published in Texas Monthly, Will van Overbeek published an expanded version of the story as the book Aggies: Life in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso in pencil lower right reading vertically "Selinium [sic] 1:9"
bottom right corner "Agfa / Pehtol / WA"
bottom right below image in ink"Will van Overbeek"

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Will van Overbeek
1979–1981, printed 1982
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1979–1981, printed 1982
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Will van Overbeek
1979–1981, printed 1982
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1979–1981, printed 1982
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Will van Overbeek
1979–1981, printed 1982
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Will van Overbeek
1979–1981, printed 1982
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