"The key is locked in the way..."
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
April 24, 1974
Ink on paper
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
D.2004.84.512.5
Portfolio / Series Title
Page 4 from The Electric Garden (Book 2)
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: THE KEY IS LOCKED IN THE WAY / THE WAY IS NOT IN THE LOCK / BUT IN THE PATH; inscribed, in ink, below image center: PATH LEAD ON TO WHERE / THE OTHER SIDE CALLS I / ANSWER WHAT IS THERE? / WHAT UNKNOWN ENERGY / MOVES THE WRITING FINGER / FROM WHAT UNFOUND / BANK O' MY HEART / I HEAR YOU CALLING; numbered, in ink, lower left: 4
Exhibition History
Energized Artscience, The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, May 3-June 4, 1978; Art/Science, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 17-October 16, 1978, no. 11.
Publication History
Sonia Landy Sheridan, Energized Artscience, Saint Paul: A Generative Systems Publication, 1978, p. 28.
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #393: "The Electric Garden" book 2 (cover and 9 pages) ink 4/24/74
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