George Woodman

George Edgar Woodman (April 27, 1932 – March 23, 2017) was an American ceramicist, painter, and photographer. Woodman went to Harvard University and married Betty Woodman (née Elizabeth Abrahams) in 1953.

After earning a master's degree in painting at the University of New Mexico, he taught painting and art criticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder until 1996. The Woodmans moved to New York in 1980 and had a second home in Italy, where they spent their summers.

The Woodmans' son, Charles, was born in 1955 and became Associate Professor of Electronic Art at the University of Cincinnati.

Their daughter was photographer Francesca Woodman; she was born in 1958 and died by suicide in 1981. Woodman selected some of his daughter's journal entries for publication in the book Francesca Woodman edited by Chris Townsend (Phaidon, 2006).