The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Untitled

Untitled

1966
(American, 1925–1972)
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.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Ralph Eugene Meatyard spent many weekends with family and friends exploring and photographing in abandoned, dilapidated old mansions.

Description

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.
  • Estate of the Artist
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 233
  • Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).
    CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
    Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
    The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).
    CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 68, no. 47.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.55