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Untitled, from the High Plains Farm, Adrian, Texas series,

Salut de Schiaperelli (Lilly Perfume),

Untitled,

An optician by profession, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a largely self-taught photographer best known for creating images that disrupt the everyday by suggesting absurd narratives for ordinary occurrences. He did not pick up a camera until he became a father, and his children eventually became frequent subjects and collaborators in his work. Meatyard […]

Quilt,

Spring Vegetable Scene,

A native of North Georgia, Mattie Lou O’Kelley began painting when she was forty-seven. Twenty years later, in 1975, her Spring Vegetable Scene became the first artwork by a living self-taught artist to enter the High’s collection. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Robert Bishop, later director of the Museum of American Folk Art, saw this unknown artist’s […]

Bouquet of Flowers,

Coverlet,

Still Life with Lobster on a White Tablecloth (Nature Morte Au Homard Sur un Nappe Blanche),

The son of a sailor, Eugène Boudin spent his youth at Honfleur on the Normandy coast and then in the port of Le Havre, where his family settled in 1835. Although Boudin thought of his still lifes as nothing more than “dining room pictures,” these works have an impressive, somber nobility. They are also historically […]

Jacquard Coverlet,

Coverlet,