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Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27

Nationality

Scottish

Found in 1989 Collections and/or Records:

Coracle Press Archive / Cutts S ; Torok K ; Fidler M ; Mills S ; Finlay IH ; Phillips T ; Williams J., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-18546-18918
Scope and Contents

David Gray's letter to Marvin Sackner offers the Coracle Press printed archive from 1974 to the present for sale to the Sackners. This material was subsequently acquired by the Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Corinthian Capitol, n. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-12574-12806
Scope and Contents

Depicts an image that can be cut-out to form a cube with crowns relating to the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Country Life. No.29/July / Finlay IH., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28389-29596
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a stone sculpture in the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay. It illustrates a statement of Saint Just, which is carved on nine rocks, "Paths to enlightenment in a garden of ideas." An essay within this magazine by Alan Powers entitled "The Sparta of the North," describes the poet's garden in Lanarkshire as one of the significant creations of our time. He states that Finlay recreated a poetic, classical garden as a place of beauty, and a journey of the mind; complex schemes of iconography provide entertainment and painted a moral. The essay is illustrated with nine colored photographs. The Sackners visited the garden with their daughter Sara in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Crate / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000

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Identifier: CC-42855-44896
Scope and Contents

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Cruel and Ingenious Sophists / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12183-12407
Scope and Contents

This is an imagined admonishment from Robespierre to Catherine Millet and Jonathan Hirschfeld dealing with their adverse criticism of Finlay's proposed commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Curios & Mirabilia / Brouwn S ; Finlay IH ; Dupuy J ; Spoerri D ; Armleder J ; Messager A., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-32162-33708
Scope and Contents

The catalogue descibes the site-specific, permanent collection of installation pieces at this museum that the Sackners visited during a trip to the Chateau country of France. The collection takes its inspiration from the 16th century cabinets of curiosities in which royalty and the learned men of the time would assemble collections of artifacts and natural objects. Ian Hamilton Finlay's installation was a sculptural work dealing with the battle of Midway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Curved to Flat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35360-37094
Scope and Contents

The cover lists numbers of three fishing ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Cygnet, 1997

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35384-37119
Scope and Contents

The inside of a Swan Vestas match box was modified to display an image of a sailboat on folded papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997