Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, c. 1960-64
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (19.7 x 19.7 cm)
8381
$10,000
Photographer's stamp with"Vintage Pre 1968" and notations in pencil on print verso.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, c. 1964
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (18.1 x 19.4 cm)
8380
$10,000
Photographer's stamp with notations in unknown hand "Vintage Pre 1967" and notations in pencil on print verso.
Illustrated: Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1925-1972. New York: Steidl, 2004, p. 161.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1962
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 1/2 x 7 3/16 in. (19.1 x 18.3 cm)
8379
Photograph's stamp and "Vintage, Pre 1968" and notations in pencil on print verso.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 7/16 x 7 3/8 in. (18.9 x 18.7 cm)
8492
$12,000
Mounted 13 x 10 inches; signed for authentication purposes by artist's widow, "Madelyn 0. Meatyard" and "573 B - 60" in ink on mount verso.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, c. 1966
Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 3/4 x 6 5/8 in. (17.1 x 16.8 cm)
8383
$8,500
Mounted to single ply mat board 11 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches. Photographer's stamp with "#13 ID" in ink and "Vintage, Pre 1968" and ntoations in pencil on mount verso.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucybelle Crater and Fatherly Friend, Lucybelle Crater, 1971
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (19.1 x 19.4 cm)
8365
$10,000
Titled and "(Fr. Basil Pennington)" in artist's hand, "6-99-590", "38" and "103 1/2" in pencil and signed by Madelyn O. Meatyard (artist's widow) as authentication in ink with artist and estate stamps on print verso. Estate #2.289. REM.0251.Y.
Illustrated: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, plate 38. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: In Prospettiva. Art&, 1995, p. 50, pl. 76.
![Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Disabled Living Activity Group, 1968-69
6 vintage gelatin silver prints
Each trimmed to image and mounted to 11 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. 2 ply Strathmore mat board and in original exhibition mat 16 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. Each titled and numbered sequentially in ink with photographer's stamp on mount verso. [Titled abbreviated on prints 2-6.]
8406
$30,000](/images/25081_h2048w2048gt.5.jpg)
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Disabled Living Activity Group, 1968-69
6 vintage gelatin silver prints
Each trimmed to image and mounted to 11 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. 2 ply Strathmore mat board and in original exhibition mat 16 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. Each titled and numbered sequentially in ink with photographer's stamp on mount verso. [Titled abbreviated on prints 2-6.]
8406
$30,000
Image 3 illustrated: Tannenbaum, Barbara, ed. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: An American Visionary. Akron Art Museum/Rizzoli, 1991, p. 133.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Bird in the Bush Infant Welfare Centre, 1968-69
7 vintage gelatin silver prints
8407
$30,000
Image sizes range from 6 1/4 - 6 11/16 x 6 11/16 - 6 3/4 in. Each trimmed to image and mounted to 11 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. 2 ply Strathmore mat board and in original exhibition mat 16 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. Each titled and numbered sequentially in ink with photographer's stamp on mount verso. [First print has full title while others have title abbreviated.]
Image 1 illustrated: Tannenbaum, Barbara, ed. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: An American Visionary. Akron Art Museum/Rizzoli, 1991, p. 132. Image 3 illustrated: Hall, James Baker with Guy Davenport. Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Aperture, p. 71 and Rhem, James. Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Nathan(Collection Photo Poche), 2000, pl. 32.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, American Cockroach and Blackbeetle Solvent Co., 1968-69
7 vintage gelatin silver prints
8408
$30,000
Image sizes range from 6 1/4 - 6 3/4 x 6 5/8 - 6 7/8 in. Each trimmed to image and mounted to 11 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. 2 ply Strathmore mat board and in original exhibition mat 16 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. Each titled and numbered sequentially in ink with photographer's stamp on mount verso. [Titled abbreviated on prints 3-7.]
Image [d] illustrated: Rhem, James. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and Other Figurative Photographs. DAP, 2002, pl. XXXII.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1962
Vintage gelatin silver print, 7 x 7 5/8 in. (17.8 x 19.4 cm)
1116
Price Upon Request
Mounted; photographer's stamp and "The Rogers Collection, Boston" stamp on mount verso.
Variant illustrated: Hall, James Baker with Guy Davenport. Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Aperture, p. 71. Tannenbaum, Barbara, ed. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: An American Visionary. Akron Art Museum/Rizzoli, 1991, p. 148 and Rhem, James. Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Nathan(Collection Photo Poche), 2000, pl. 13.
![Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Common Open Spaces and Footpath Preservation Society, 1969
15 vintage gelatin silver prints
Image sizes range from 5 13/16 - 5 7/8 x 5 11/16 - 5 13/16 in. Printed with small white margins and trimmed to sizes range from 6 3/4 - 6 13/16 x 6 11/16 - 6 3/4 in. Mounted to 2 ply mat board 11 1/2 x 9 5/8.
Each print titled and numbered sequentially in ink and stamped on print verso [first image has the full title and the rest have an abbreviation].
Image 11 illustrated: Gassan, Arnold and Wendell Berry. Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Gnomon Press, 1970, pl. 22.
8433
$30,000](/images/26515_h2048w2048gt.5.jpg)
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Common Open Spaces and Footpath Preservation Society, 1969
15 vintage gelatin silver prints
Image sizes range from 5 13/16 - 5 7/8 x 5 11/16 - 5 13/16 in. Printed with small white margins and trimmed to sizes range from 6 3/4 - 6 13/16 x 6 11/16 - 6 3/4 in. Mounted to 2 ply mat board 11 1/2 x 9 5/8. Each print titled and numbered sequentially in ink and stamped on print verso [first image has the full title and the rest have an abbreviation]. Image 11 illustrated: Gassan, Arnold and Wendell Berry. Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Gnomon Press, 1970, pl. 22.
8433
$30,000
Meatyard was introduced to sequencing by Minor White and intuitively understood the importance of narrative in images. The title is nonsensical and thus encourages the viewer to use their imagination to interpret the meaning of the work. They are dark and haunting and vibrate with energy even though the photographs were made late in the year when much of the foliage had died.
In the forward of Ralph Eugene Meatyard: A Fourfold Vision (Nazraeli Press, 2005), photographer Emmet Gowin recalls meeting Meatyard in 1968 and being introduced to the Motion-Sound series: “…Gene instructed me that it would be more useful to think in terms of Vibration, or Visible Sound.” Gowin later reflected, “Everything in these photographs reminds us that all of nature depends on its proper pulse.”
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