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Title
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Creator
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Geoff Winningham
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Artist ID
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117
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Description
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Male wrestlers in ring
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Category of Media
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Photograph
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Media
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Silverprint
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Accession Number
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1977.035
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Location
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display, Building: Floor: Room: Bin:
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Date Acquired
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1977
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Acquisition Method
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Purchase
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Dimensions of Work
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11.5" x 17.25"
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Frame Dimensions
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16.25" x 20.25"
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Frame Type
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Steel
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Donor ID
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131
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Artist Bio
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Geoff Winningham, born in Jackson, Tennessee, earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Rice University and a master’s degree in photography from the Institute of Design at IIT, where he studied with Aaron Siskind and Arthur Siegel. He returned to Houston in 1968 to begin a career in photography, documentary filmmaking, and journalism. He joined the art department at Rice University in 1969, and he continues to teach there today, holding the Lynette S. Autrey Chair in the Humanities. Over a career that spans nearly 50 years, he has received two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous commissions. He has published ten books and completed three documentary films on a wide variety of subjects, primarily related to Texas and Mexican culture. His book Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico (2010) won both the Ron Tyler Prize from the Texas State Historical Association and the J. B. Jackson Award from the Foundation for Landscape Studies. His photographs are in major collections across the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Antonio Museum of Art; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; and the Wittliff Collections. Source: http://www.geoffwinningham.com/bio.html
