Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Lucybelle Crater and Close Friend in Grape Arbor

Lucybelle Crater and Close Friend in Grape Arbor
Lucybelle Crater and Close Friend in Grape Arbor
Lucybelle Crater and Close Friend in Grape Arbor
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Lucybelle Crater and Close Friend in Grape Arbor
Date1971, printed later
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 11/16 × 10 in. (24.6 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joan Morgenstern
Object number99.461
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThis photograph is one of 64 from Ralph Meatyard’s best-known and final
body of work, The Family Album of
Lucybelle Crater
. Each image in the series features Meatyard’s wife,
Madelyn, in a Halloween hag’s mask and posing with family or friends who wear a
semi-transparent mask. “Billboards in any art are the first things that one
sees,” explained Meatyard. “The masks might be interpreted as billboards. Once
you get past the billboard then you can see into the past, the present, &
the future . . . and that has been the essence of my photography forever.” 


 




ProvenanceJoan Morgenstern, Houston; given to MFAH, 1999.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center a stamp "Modern print by his son Christopher from the original negative[this first part in a curly design] Ralph Eugene Meatyard / Negative 1971 1/50 Print 1992"

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