Profile, Sound Image Made by Mahler's 6th Symphony
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
January 12, 1978
Sound Image: VQC powder on paper
Overall: 11 1/2 × 8 9/16 in. (29.2 × 21.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
MIS.2004.84.322
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, dated, and signed, in ink, lower center: Made by Mahler's 6 Symphany - ink part on Janaury 12, 1978 Sonia Sheridan
Course History
MUS 23, Timbre and Form, Richard Beaudoin, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
Energized Artscience, The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, May 3-June 4, 1978.
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
Sonia Landy Sheridan, Patterns in the Flow, 2005, no page number; Sonia Landy Sheridan, Energized Artscience, Saint Paul: A Generative Systems Publication, 1978, p. 52; Gemma Cowan, Sonia Landy Sheridan: A Gender-ative Introduction to the Copy/Artist/Machine Dissertation, London: School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2004, p. 47.
Helene E. Roberts, Ed., Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge of Taylor & Francis, December 2006, 427 pp., B&W ill. p. 335.
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. 30, p. 58, Cat. No. 84.
Provenance
The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #473: profile, sound image made by Mahler's 6th Symphony playing through loudspeaker on Jan. 12. 1978 [Note: Sonia used grease on face which was then pressed on plain paper. Paper then sprinkle
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