b. 1932, United States
d. 2017
American painter and photographer, 1932-2017
George Woodman (1932 – 2017) was a photographer and painter whose career spanned more than 60 years and included forays into diverse visual media. Woodman was deeply influenced by classical and modernist traditions. He was committed to explorations of colour and abstraction in a variety of forms – landscape, geometric, and patterned -before pivoting toward the figure, sculpture, and architecture.