Meatyard, Ralph Eugene. Untitled, 1966. 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.). John L. Severance Fund, 1989.55. Copyrighted.

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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.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Meatyard, Ralph Eugene
Classification: Photograph
Formatted Medium: gelatin silver print
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