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Untitled
1966
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–1972)
Photography
Untitled, 1966. Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–1972). Gelatin silver print; image: 18.8 x 18.7 cm (7 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1989.55 A licensed optician, Ralph Eugene Meatyard took up photography in 1954. A mystical sensibility permeates nearly all his work, but is especially pronounced in his pictures of blurred people, their forms distorted by the use of a slow shutter speed. In this example, they wander through an empty, decrepit house like ghosts or figures in a dream. Ralph Eugene Meatyard spent many weekends with family and friends exploring and photographing in abandoned, dilapidated old mansions.
- Maker/Artist
- Meatyard, Ralph Eugene
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 18.8 x 18.7 cm (7 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Written in blue ink on verso: "Madelyn O. Meatyard"; in pencil on verso: "133 A-66"
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 1989.55
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1989, Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows), CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 68, no. 47.<br>CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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