The Seeing Box and Its Energy
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
October 1965
Graphite on paper
Overall: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in. (27.8 × 21.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
D.2004.84.263
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, below image left: The seeing box and its energy; dated, in graphite, lower right: Oct 1965; signed, in graphite, lower left: Sonia Sheridan; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse lower left: 2 280.1975; numbered, in graphite, on reverse lower right: cat. mo. 8
Exhibition History
The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan, Owen Robertson Cheatham and Friends Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10, 2009-January 3, 2010.
Publication History
John V. Kulvicki, On Images: Their Structure and Content, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 258 pp., ill. p. 158.
Diane Kirkpatrick, Katherine Hart, Mary Flanagan, The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, University Press of New England, 2009, ill, p. 51, Cat. No. 41.
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #184: "The Seeing Box and Its Energy," pencil on Arches paper, Oct 1965
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