When she died in Omaha, Neb., in 1963, at age 67, her primary output of around 200 color-pencil-and-ink drawings lay hidden in a cardboard box kept by her older sister, with whom she had lived most of her adult life...
In 2006, the drawings resurfaced and came to the attention of Sully's great-nephew, Philip J Deloria, who documented them in a terrific 2019 book called Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract...
Organized by Patricia Marroquin Norby and Sylvia Yount, the exhibition at the Met includes 25 drawings with some documentary material for context, showcasing Sully's vivid coloring and fine-cut patterning...
Each drawing actually consists of three separate, different-sized vertical drawings, or panels, on paper, presenting a rich and complicated visual experience.
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