"When the Y is closed death comes..."
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
April 23, 1974
Ink on paper
Sheet: 11 × 8 7/16 in. (28 × 21.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
D.2004.84.511.12
Portfolio / Series Title
Page 11 from The Electric Garden (Book 1)
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in ink, in image upper center: Y / 9 4 9 / Y 9 9 / when the y is closed death comes / maybe not????; inscribed, in ink, below image center: SHIP = LIFE MOTION / 1989 16 / 1984 = SHIP = LIFE MOTION / 1984 / 5 6 / 1 1984 / 5 1925 / 59 [circled] IN TEN YEARS = MAGIC / 4 . 23 . 1974 / 4 . 10 . 19 25 / 13 49 / ALCHEMY / 49 1.12.3.8.5.13.25 [circled] / 25 = Y = MAGIC Y / SONYA LANDY = MAGIC AURA; dated, in ink, lower right: 4.23.74; numbered, in ink, lower left: 11; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse lower left: 293.1978
Exhibition History
Art/Science, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 17-October 16, 1978, no. 10.
Publication History
Diane Kirkpatrick, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Woman's Art Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee: Woman's Art, Inc., 1980, p. 59.
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #392: "The Electric Garden" book 1 (cover with Kirlian photo and 11 pages) ink 4/23/74
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