"The pen-candle glows in the garden auras..." page 4 from The Electric Garden (Book 1)
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
April 23, 1974
Ink on paper
Sheet: 11 × 8 7/16 in. (28 × 21.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
D.2004.84.511.5
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 upper center: ELECTRIC GARDENS; inscribed, in ink, in image center: The pen-candle glows in the garden of aura / finger, finger, burning bright in the garden of / the night is the tiger whose fearsome eye was / fashioned by sheer energy. / Little Orphan Annie you grow in my electric / garden with your aura orbs...Little Orphan / Annie came to our house to Play, to sweep / the kitchen floor and shoo the flies away; inscribed, in ink, below image left: Electric broom; inscribed and dated, in ink, below image right: The April 23, 1974 in Ill [symbol]noise; numbered, in ink, lower left: 4
Exhibition History
Art/Science, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 17-October 16, 1978, no. 10.
Publication History
Diane Kirkpatrick, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Woman's Art Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee: Woman's Art, Inc., 1980, p. 59.
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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