Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27
Nationality
Scottish
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Homage To Victor Silvester / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973
Item
Identifier: CC-11983-12206
Scope and Contents
Image on the card is a map of a sea battle off the Italian coast during WWII that has the appearance of choreographed dance steps. 'Victor Sylvester's Ballroom Orchestra' was one of the leading dance band of the 1940s era. Victor Sylvester's early career was as a world champion exhibition dancer, who was also teaching ballroom dancing with his sister Gwen. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, there was a lack of good dance recordings that featured a constant tempo, something Sylvester needed for his dance studio. Most of the studios used a rather simple hand-wound phonograph to play recordings. With characteristic verve, Sylvester assembled a few musicians and made his own recording featuring songs with the pronounced beat so needed by dancers. Soon, other dance instructors were buying his records. Among his releases were "Ballroom Dancing with Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra", and "Dancing On My Heart". Interestingly, he also authored the book "Victor Sylvester's...
Dates:
1973
Little Sparta: The Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 2002
Item
Identifier: CC-42849-44890
Scope and Contents
This is a map for visitors to Finlay's garden that the Sackners used during a visit in September 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2002
Mindful Page, The / Gary Richman, curator ; Wendy Holmes, curator ; Baldessari J ; Baruchello GF ; Becker N ; Coe S ; Corris M ; Curtay JP ; DeCoster M ; Denes A ; Dibbets J ; Downsborough P ; Drescher H ; Ernst K ; Finlay IH ; Fones R ; Gilbert S ; Gordon B ; Hamilton R ; Holt N ; Knorr K ; Kruger B ; Lanyon E ; Lavater W ; Laxson R ; Lehrer W ; LeWitt S ; Long R ; McCarney S ; Metz M ; Opie J ; Osborn K ; Phillips T ; Richmond G ; Rutkovsky P ; Rowe W ; Shaw K ; Snow M ; Stokes T ; Weil S ; Weiner L ; Williams R ; Winkler M ; Zelevansky P ; Zimmerman P., 1987
Item
Identifier: CC-53689-54248
Scope and Contents
Most of the books depicted in this catalogue that were shown as a traveling exhibition in New England were mass produced artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1987
Rehearsals of Water in Woods by the Shores / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 2000
Item
Identifier: CC-42851-44892
Scope and Contents
The metaphor in this picture poem is fallen leaves from trees near a shoreline simulating water. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2000