Symmetry / Balancing on the Cusp
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
about 1980s
Computer printout on paper
Sheet: 11 × 8 7/16 in. (28 × 21.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
MIS.2004.84.254
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower left: Sonia Sheridan; dated, in graphite, lower right: c. 1980s; inscribed, in ink, above image center: SYMMETRY / BALANCING ON THE CUSP; inscribed, in ink, below image left: The Y in the Landscape / YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, / Bifurcation / Refraction / Heat pressure / Boot in the mud pressure / Lotion between hand palms ripped apart / Positive electrostatic charge / River delta / the 25th English letter / The Y in the eYe: I SonYa LandY from 1925 in [hourglass symbol] balancing.; signed and dated, in graphite, on reverse lower center: Sonia Sheridan 6/16/94
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #580: "Balancing on the Cusp," p. 2 for Hungarian man, image for mail art 1980s
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