Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater

The series presents portraits of the artist’s wife wearing a dime-store hag’s mask, paired with various family members and friends who wear a transparent hard-plastic mask. The titles of the images outline cryptic relationships, and in all instances, both figures are identified by the same name: Lucybelle Crater.

Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing against a hedgerow
Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing on the front steps of a brick home
Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing in front of a wire fence
Black and white photograph of two female figures with masks standing by concrete column outdoors
Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing by an ajar wooden gate
Black-and-white photograph of an adult and child in rubber masks standing behind a clothesline with a few garments
Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing next to a lattice-in porch of a brick building
Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks seated on a low convertible car
Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing in front of a screened-in terrace
Black-and-white photograph of a couple wearing rubber masks seated in the grass in front of a car
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