"Mary, Mary quite contrary..."

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in ink, in image lower center: electric eels weave through mist aura....... / The electric garden glows, grows; inscribed, in ink, below image center: mary, mary, quite contrary, how does your garden / grow? with electric bulbs and electric bells / glowing in a row; numbered, in ink, lower left: 3

Exhibition History

Art/Science, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 17-October 16, 1978, no. 10.

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

Sonia Landy Sheridan, Patterns in the Flow, 2005, no page number; Diane Kirkpatrick, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Woman's Art Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee: Woman's Art, Inc., 1980, p. 59.

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. 43

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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