"The Creator... the Glacier...Traces in Time"

Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021

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January 5, 1978

Ink and wash on paper

Overall: 10 1/16 × 6 3/8 in. (25.6 × 16.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist

D.2004.84.419

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 center: There are the machine riders (makers) / And then there are the machine makers (riders) / The riders get to the moon / The makers dream of the moon / The Dreamer / The Dreamer always paves the way / For the Rider / The Rider / The Rider always paves the way / For the Dreamer / The Dreamer / The Dreamer and the Rider are / Intertwined / But what is the structure of / The Relationship? / The creator... The glacier, the leaf, pressure, / heat = electricity = stress / traces as the path is / The Path creater; dated, inscribed, and signed, in ink, below image center: January 5, 1978, traces in time ... Sonia; signed, in graphite, lower left: Sonia Sheridan

Exhibition History

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

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. 48, Cat. No. 25.

Provenance

The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.

Catalogue Raisonne

Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #472: "The creator...the glacier" colored inks 1/5/78

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