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Homage to Meatyard
Homage to Meatyard
Homage to Meatyard

Homage to Meatyard

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1987-1988
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 16 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (41.9 × 28.3 cm)
Support: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.20
DescriptionFull-length portrait of two people, the one on the left perched on a high stool and the one on the right standing with right hand on left shoulder of other figure. Figure at right is dressed in trousers with suspenders and a button-front dress shirt. He wears a maks of a wrinkled face and light hair in disarray. Figure at left is dressed as a woman in a skirt with a shirt and cardigan on top. She wears a wrinkled-face mask and straight white hair, along with a ring on left hand.
Text Entries
In a conversation with Katherine Ware, Noggle’s friend and studio assistant Jim Holbrook said this was taken at Noggle’s house, as he recognized her stucco wall in the background. He estimated the date at around 1987-88.
Anne Noggle probably learned about the photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard from  Van Deren Coke, her teacher at the University of New Mexico. Coke -- himself a prominent photographer, curator, and professor -- was a native of Lexington, Kentucky, where Meatyard lived and worked as an optican as well as a photographer. Meatyard is known for using family members and neighbors as models and posing them in ordinary settings wearing masks. Since Noggle’s  close circle of family and friends were also her models and because she used masks in some of her self-portraits, she may have felt an affinity with Meatyard. In this tribute, she and one of her students pose in masks, forming a macabre couple.
In a conversation with Katherine Ware, artist Betty Hahn said the figure on the left is Anne Noggle because of the ring she is wearing and the figure on the left is likely to be Don Kuzio, one of Noggle’s students who worked as her assistant. Kuzio lives in Chicago and in 2016 did not respond to a request for verification.



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