Brinley Ribando Art

From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71) Printed April 1974 Edition of 130 Credit stamp, verso 6.5 x 7 inches, image 15 x 12 inches, mount This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Madelyn Meatyard was an indulgent model. The role her husband usually chose for her was that of mother, posing with one or more of her three children. Here, he stations her before an arched window. The pious atmosphere created by this framing is contradicted by Madelyn’s everyday dress and by the dilapidated Venetian blinds behind her. Unlike a traditional religious icon, this Madonna gazes sternly into space, while her small child stands facing the maternal loins from which she sprang. Many photographers prior to Meatyard—such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edwards Weston and Harry Callahan—had produced series based on their beguiling wives.” —Judith Keller, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2002), pp. 86-87 An optician by trade, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a self-described “dedicated amateur” photographer. He pursued his own vision to produce an exquisitely enigmatic, widely admired body of work. Meatyard began taking photographs in 1950, roaming the backwoods and towns in Kentucky, experimenting with framing, multiple exposures, and blurring to produce haunting, abstracted images of natural and manmade environments. In the late 1950s, he began incorporating monstrous, oversized latex masks...

Gelatin silver print Signed in pencil, verso 12.25 x 10 inches, sheet 6.25 x 6.25 inches, image This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Throughout his care...

Silver Photographic print of a bedside table and lamp by D. Smalen. Signed lower Right on mat "D. Smalen." Circa 1980-90. Size 10"H x 8"W , Sight, 9"H x 7.25"W, Mat, 16"H x 20"W.

Michael Canfield and Jacqueline Bouvier (1929 – 1994) at Newport Casino Tennis Week, Newport, Rhode Island, 1955. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of...

Titled, dated and artist stamp.

From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71) Printed April 1974 Edition of 130 Credit stamp, verso 6.75 x 6.75 inches, image 15 x 12 inches, mount This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “This photograph is found in the portrait section of the Time-Life publication "Photographing Children...

Gelatin silver print Signed in pencil, verso 16 x 20 inches, sheet size 14 x 18.25 inches, image size This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Lillian Bassma...

Edition 4/200 Signed, dated and numbered in black ink on print margin by Harold Feinstein Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island, New York, in 1931. He began photographing in 19...

Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club Archival pigment print image size: 36 x 36 inches Signed and numbered edition of 15 William Coupon is an...

American actress and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (1890 – 1966) chatting with James Stewart (1908 – 1997) during a New Year’s Eve party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood,...

Patsy Pulitzer, Seaplane At Palm Beach Chromogenic print, 1955 Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity...

From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71) Printed April 1974 Edition of 130 Credit stamp, verso 7 x 7 inches, image 15 x 12 inches, mount This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “This image probably owes some of its inspiration to the abnormal characters in the stories of Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 collection, "A Good Man is Hard to Find." But Meatyard was also looking at Giorgio de Chirico and the European Surrealists and here employs their penchant for the lifeless mannequin figure. A headless dressmaker’s dummy...