Untitled
- Title:
- Untitled
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
- Creator:
- Meatyard, Ralph Eugene
- Creation Date:
- 1950-1972
- ID Number:
- 2001.051.020
- File Name:
- 2001.051.020.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- People and their places
Rural America - Measurement:
- 19.7 x 14 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Looking across a street at two little boys gleefully grappling on the corner of a field, just left of the center of the frame. The boys are standing on the soft shoulder where a gravel road meets a paved road. Both boys are light skinned, with short cropped hair; the older one is bent forward at the waist over the younger, and they have their arms clasped about each other. The younger boy is looking toward the camera with a smile. The boys and the scrubby plants at the side of the road have visible detail and rich contrast. An electric pole is dark and tall on the right side of the image. The street is light colored and the pavement is cracked; the gravel road runs down to it on the left side, separating a distant cornfield from a closer field. The sky is light and featureless, the gravel road and the field disappear hazily into it.
- Notes:
- Matted gelatin silver print.
One of almost fifty works by Meatyard held by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum. - Cite As:
- Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–1972), Untitled. Gelatin silver print, 19.7 x 14 cm. Gift of Donald J. Weiss, Class of 1965, and Alison Weiss, 2001.051.020.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
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