"The Moving Hand having writ... The smiling Mona Leaf..."
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
November 12, 1976
Ink and wash on paper
Sheet: 11 × 7 9/16 in. (28 × 19.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
D.2004.84.427
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Dated and signed, in graphite, in image lower left: 11.12.76 Sonia Sheridan 3 PM; inscribed, in ink, in image upper center: The moving hand / having writ....; inscribed, in ink, in image lower center: The smiling Mona Leaf
Publication History
Diane Kirkpatrick, Sonia Sheridan: Between Mind and Machine, Afterimage Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop, 1978, p. 15.
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #429 (?): "The Smelling Monaleaf" colored inks on Arches paper 11/17/76
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