"The Floating Life"
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
1958
Japanese color woodcut on paper
Plate: 11 13/16 × 17 15/16 in. (30 × 45.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 19 11/16 in. (36 × 50 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
PR.2004.84.632
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, below image left: "The Floating Life"; inscribed, in graphite, below image center: Japanese woodcut; signed and dated, in graphite, below image right: Sheridan 1958
Exhibition History
Energized Artscience, The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, May 3-June 4, 1978.
Publication History
Sonia Landy Sheridan, Energized Artscience, Saint Paul: A Generative Systems Publication, 1978, p. 33.
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. 8, Fig. 3..
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory list #28: "The Floating Life," color woodcut, Artist's Proof, 14 1/4" x 19 1/2", 1958
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