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Meatyard, Ralph Eugene
American (1925-1972)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Lucybelle Crater and her successful peanut farmer friend from Port Royal, Kyentucky, Lucybelle Crater
SERIES TITLE: "The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater"

1971 / print, 1981, by Christopher Meatyard
gelatin silver print
18.0 x 17.8 cm.
Gift of Priscilla Colt
90:0010:0009

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Greene, Jonathan, et al. --The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater--. New York: Jargon Society, 1974. pg. 21.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in ink) "Negative/Ralph Eugene Meatyard 1971 Silver Print/Christopher Meatyard 1981" "'Lucybelle Crater and her successful peanut farmer friend from Port Royal, Kentucky - Lucybelle Crater'"

NOTES: Catalogued 2/90, DZ. Madelyn Meatyard plays the part of Lucybelle Crater in this fictional family photo album. Family friends disguised with masks also appear in these photographs. See also 72:018:02.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ident / Meatyard, Madelyn
portrait, ident / Berry, Wendell
portrait, couple
people, masquerading

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