Dr. Carl Seashore

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Dr. Carl Seashore

Artist Mary Sully (Dakota Sioux, 1896 - 1963)

Date1920s to 1940s

Dimensionstop panel: 12.875 x 18 inches
middle panel: 12 x 19 inches
bottom panel: 9.5 x 12 inches.

MediumColored pencil, black ink, gilt, white paint, pastel crayon, on paper

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2025.148

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DescriptionThe top panel, where children and young people are shown in silhouette, refers to the subject’s involvement with education. The outer right and left edges of the paper are shaded squares containing pink musical notes. The vertical center of the drawing has the same shaded squares, but these contain tulip forms with upward pointing arrows connecting the squares. The horizontal lines that separate the squares are extended on the tops touching the heads and shoulders of the tallest silhouettes, as if measuring them. The highly decorative middle panel is segmented by vertical zigzagging lines. Lovely small pink flowers are drawn against a blue ground. The bottom panel, so often geometric in patterning, is, in this case, all circles and ovals drawn in greens and pink, connected by delicate vining black lines.

Published ReferencesDeloria, Phil, Becoming Mary Sully: Towards an American Indian Abstract, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2019, repr.