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Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27

Nationality

Scottish

Found in 1990 Collections and/or Records:

Boreas / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35243-36977
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a black and white line drawing of hands bending a plank for a model boat. The title "Boreas" means North wind and the poem reads, plank bender. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Bouleau-Birch / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Webb, Caroline., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-12220-12444
Scope and Contents

In the title, Bouleau means Birch Tree. The poem reads Marbre which is French for marble. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Bouquet / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11068-11283
Scope and Contents

Image depicts a whellbarrow with heads in an abstract presentation presumably an imagined scene from the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Box Lid Design for Pacific] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-12774-13044
Scope and Contents

This design done by Harvey of Kamikaze & American fighter planes drawn in graphite on the background of an aircraft carrier drawn in ink was not utilized in the final version of the game because the concept of a box container was discarded. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Boy in a Field / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-43159-45215
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover is a woodcut by Gary Hincks after Walter Langley that depicts a boy in a field looking at a toy sailboat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

BP / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35391-37126
Scope and Contents

The title, BP, signifies British Petroleum and the poem on the pages is the word, "Tanker" with its letters widely spaced to indicate the enormity of these ocean going vessels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Brailed / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Jones, Grahame., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12506-12733
Scope and Contents

Brailed means taken up or folded and the print depicts a sailing ship with its sails folded up. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Bread and butter hull / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35205-36939
Scope and Contents

The image on this card depicts a line drawing of the aft view of a sailing ship hull after a balsa wood model made by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Breaking the Word-Image Barrier / Ollman, Leah; Phillips T; Finlay IH; Tyson I., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-05262-5365
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent unique pages from the first revised edition of "A Humument" by Tom Phillips to this exhibition at UC San Diego's Mandeville Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Breezy Day / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35363-37097
Scope and Contents

The blind embossing on the white card within the folded white card reads, seagulls & whitecaps (embossed). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

British Modernism, Fact or Fiction? - A Debate / Cobbing, Bob; Lucie-Smith, Edward; Finlay IH; Houedard DS; Furnival J; Fernbach-Flarscheim C; Cox K., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-17781-18150
Scope and Contents

Designated pamphlet seven. Although the title page of this publication announces a debate, the pages consist of photocopied reproductions of concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Brittany / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35234-36968
Scope and Contents

The image on this card is a black and white drawing of a harbor scene in Brittany with nuns in the foreground after a painting by Maurice Dennis. The one-word poem is 'litany." Finlay quotes Caroline Boyle-Turner, "The painters felt that the peasants' lives had not changed since medieval times. They were also fascinated by the mystical character of the Bretons Catholicism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Brount: An Idyll / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gillanders, Robin., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12937-13229
Scope and Contents

The short texts concern Robespierre and his dog Brount. The photographic illustrations are of Brount's dish, with his name inscribed on it, in various interior and garden settings. The Brount ceramic dish was made by David Ballentyne, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Brount: An Idyll / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gillanders, Robin., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-34976-36693
Scope and Contents

Brount was the name of Robespierre's dog. This print is a reproduction of one of the pages in the book of the same title. The text of the caption is taken from Hector Fleischmann's "Robespierre and the Women He Loved." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Brount / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12119-12343
Scope and Contents

The image is a sculpture of a dog and Brount is the name of an antagonistic critic of Finlay's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987