Balancing on the Sea of Time
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
May 1994
Ink, wash, and Conté crayon on paper
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in. (27.8 × 21.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
D.2004.84.480
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: Sonia Sheridan; inscribed, in ink, above image: Balancing on the Sea of Time; inscribed, in ink, below image center: Clockwise and counterclockwise on teh Time Plane... / wrinkled by pressure and heat into the Y, the / dendrite, the fractal - Winken Blinken and / Nod sailed off on the 44 time plane and / the owl and the pussycat went to sea...; signed, in graphite, on reverse lower left: Sonia Sheridan; inscribed and dated, in graphite, on reverse lower right: date found on slide -> 5-1994
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #639: "Balancing on the Sea of time," Inner Landscape, colored ink painting on Arches paper, 5/1994
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