Ron Williamson
Baseball field, Norman, Oklahoma
Williamson had been drafted by the Oakland Athletics before being sentenced to death
Served 11 years of a death sentence

Artist Taryn Simon (American, born 1975)

Date2002

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage and sheet (est.): 30 × 40 inches (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Framed: 31 1/4 × 40 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (79.38 × 102.24 × 3.81 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2017.68.152

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Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 1/5

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DescriptionImage of a man with his hands in his pockets standing in a dirt baseball field next to a base. He wears glasses, jeans, a black t-shirt with a crucifix pendant around his neck, and a green Oakland A’s baseball hat.Provenance

Provenance

The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

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