Four Page Story, Page Four: Over the Land there Settled a Sadness...
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
January 1968- June 1968
Ink on paper
Sheet: 8 × 4 15/16 in. (20.3 × 12.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
D.2004.84.190
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in ink, above image center: OVER THE LAND THERE SETTLED A / SADNESS. THIS IS THE WAY IT WAS. / AFTER JUNE 4, 1968.; inscribed, in ink, in image center: BY THE 10TH OF JUNE, THE CLOUDS / HUNG MORE HEAVILY THAN EVER. / THIS IS THE WAY IT WAS.; signed, in graphite, lower left: Sonia Sheridan
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #240: 4 sheets of "a story" "From Jan to Je 1968," ink, 1968
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