Nathan Lyons, 2nd Generation
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
1971
Copy art; 3M Color-In-Color II on paper mounted on heavy stock with cut-out heavy stock mat and graphite on tracing paper inserted under cover
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 11 in. (21.8 × 28 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
MIS.2004.84.648
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Digital and New Media
Research Area
Digital and New Media
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, on tracing paper right of image: First iron a / color matrix / onto transparency - then cut up. / This grid is the / scale used... / small pieces which / looked like these were / blown up on Color System II.; inscribed and dated, in graphite, on tracing paper below image: Nathan Lyons 2nd generation / This is my first contact with Color-in-Color II / C-in-C I provided the small original; system II - the large blow up. It hung in Visual Studies Workshop / in Rochester, New York in 1971. This gave me the / idea for the large man-scans which hung in the N.Y. Museum of Modern Art.; inscribed and numbered, in ink, on sticker affixed to reverse upper right of back heavy stock: OLLENDORF FINE ARTS / FINE ART PACKERS AND SHIPPERS / NEW YORK - SAN FRANCISCO / Lot. No. Piece No. / 5261 Sheridan / cat 61
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #344 & 345: 3M Color-In-Color I: "Nathan Lyons," mounted first generation image, 15 1/2" x 15 1/8", 1971; 3M Color-In-Color I: "Nathan Lyons -- Description for Color-In-Color II blow-up Face," "
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