Will van Overbeek
Aggie Spirit

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Artist Will van Overbeek(American, born 1955)American, born 1955

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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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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