Portfolio Three: The Work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard:
An Inventory of the Portfolio at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Meatyard, Ralph Eugene,
1925-1972
Title:
Portfolio Three: The Work of Ralph
Eugene Meatyard
Dates:
1959-1972, published 1974
Extent:
1 portfolio containing 10 photographs
Abstract:
Limited edition published portfolio,
entitled Portfolio Three: The Work of Ralph Eugene
Meatyard (Louisville, Ky.: Center for Photographic Studies, 1974),
containing 10 mounted, gelatin silver photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard
(American, 1925-1972).
Call Number:
Photography Collection
PH-02648
Language:
English
Access:
Open for research.
Administrative Information
Acquisition:
Internal transfer from the Guy Davenport Papers, 2014.
Limited edition published portfolio, entitled Portfolio
Three: The Work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard (Louisville, Ky.: Center for
Photographic Studies, 1974), containing 10 mounted, gelatin silver photographs
by
Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925-1972). The portfolio was issued in a grey
board slipcase, illustrated with two reproductions of photographs of Meatyard
by his
daughter, Melissa Meatyard (American). "This portfolio was produced under the
supervision of Conrad J. Pressma at the Center for Photographic Studies, with
the
approval and cooperation of Madelyn Meatyard." Madelyn Meatyard (American,
1926-2016) was the artist's widow. The mounted prints, each separated by a cotton
paper cover sheet, are enclosed in a grey paper folder within an off-white,
cloth-bound board portfolio. Printed inside the folder are two essays: one by
Van
Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004), and the other by Conrad J. Pressma (American,
born
1944), the Director of the Center for Photographic Studies. "This edition of
Portfolio Three: The Work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard is limited to 130 numbered
copies. Of that number, 100 are offered for sale and 30 proof copies are reserved
for special friends of the Center for Photographic Studies." The Ransom Center's
copy is number 38. The titles and dates that appear in the item list were
transcribed from the porfolio's list of plates. Accompanying the portfolio, though
not issued with it, is a copy of the publisher's announcement that reproduces
all
ten photographs in the portfolio.
Related Material
The Ransom Center holds additional photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard in the Ralph
Eugene Meatyard Photography Collection (PH-02566), the Guy Davenport Photography
Collection Literary File (PH-02665), the Parker Tyler Photography Collection
Literary File (PH-02656), and the Edward Dahlberg Collection Literary File
(PH-02655). This portfolio was internally transferred from the Guy Davenport Papers
(MS-04979).
