RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD (1925-1972)
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF VAN DEREN AND JOAN COKE
RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD (1925-1972)

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细节
RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD (1925-1972)
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Gelatin silver print. 1959.
61/8 x 67/8in. (15.6 x 17.5cm.), mounted.
来源
From the artist;
to the present owner.

拍品专文

Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a student, close friend and confreres of Van Deren Coke in his hometown of Lexington, Kentucky from 1954-55 until his death in 1972. Meatyard was a Midwesterner himself, from Illinois, working as an optician in Lexington, specializing in grinding difficult lenses.

Coke remembers him as a voracious reader, suggesting that perhaps the narrative sense of his work stemmed from the volume of books Meatyard consumed.