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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:

F1 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Roberts, John., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11972-12195
Scope and Contents

This card has two photographic reproductions of steamships. The photographs were taken by John Roberts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Fabre / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-12254-12478
Scope and Contents

Fabre was responsible for creation of the French Republican calendar with its iconography of flowers, fruits, animals, and agricultural elements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Fact Card 1 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35440-37176
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, "Over 200 Flowers served as convoy escorts in WW2." Flowers refers to the Flower class corvette of the British navy in WW2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

F.A.L. Scottish Propellers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35405-37140
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts two propellers on a long shaft. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Family: A Homage to Simon Cutts / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Paterson, Dave; Cutts S., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12011-12234
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Family Group / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Torok, Karl., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-11867-12088
Scope and Contents

The image of the tipped-in print is a landscape of sculptures trees and bushes that Finlay designates with human names, e.g., Gardner, Cousin William?, Mama, etc.in the loose print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Far From The Sea / Foolen, Peter, editor ; Long R ; Finlay IH ; Finlay A ; Waanders H ; Foolen P ; Clark L ; Fulton H ; Ackling R ; Clark TA., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-49585-70634
Scope and Contents

This is an illustrated catalogue of prints and books produced by the October Foundation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Fax, Idling Its Sails / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-12523-12750
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Ferrea Virga Est / Stay-Sail / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12315-12540
Scope and Contents

This print is a template for a design of covers for jampots base upon the image of sundials. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Fete Champetre / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Duncalf, Stephen., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-12991-13283
Scope and Contents

The "rustic party" is a drawing of nine small model airplanes as plants in a garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Fete, Little Sparta / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Irving, Ralph., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11088-11303
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Fewer Sculptures! / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-12091-12315
Scope and Contents

The full text of the card reads, Fewer Sculptures! More Statues! Live Ammunition in Community Arts! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Field / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-43162-45218
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover is a woodcut by Gary Hincks of a wheat field with a wind blown path through it. Finlay's poem reads "The wind in - the wheat on - the path it - makes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Figleaf / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-12257-12481
Scope and Contents

This is a colored photograph of figleaves overlying a curved stone inscription entitled "figleaf." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Figleaf / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sterling, Annet., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-12261-12485
Scope and Contents

The figleaf images printed over the word "Figleaf" almost obscures the stencilled word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Fine Mini-Archive of Ian Hamilton Finlay Correspondence to John Pauker / Feine, Bob; Finlay IH., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10937-11149
Scope and Contents

This archive consisted of 17 letters between Ian Hamilton Finlay and John Pauker, poetry consultant to U.S. Information Agency, who referred to themselves as "Gunboat" & "Dinghy." This is the documentation of these letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Fingers probing into dark part two / Heart Fine Art ; Finlay IH ; Vostell W ; Flynt H ; Klein Y ; Hanson A ; Hutchins A ; Seuphor M ; Janco M ; Kippenberger M ; Knizak M., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-40788-42763
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Fire Coming On...(1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11082-11297
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Fire Coming On...(2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11081-11296
Scope and Contents

This has been taken from Heraclitean Variations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

First Battle of Little Sparta February 4, 1983 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12308-12533
Scope and Contents This is an appeal for money to erect a monument.Roe and Moore WEB 2016 offered "A letter and related cuttings concerning 'The Little Spartan War' of 1983. From the collection of Douglas Maxwell" for$987. It included a single signed, typed Finlay letter, thereby placing the value at about $400 a page.A two page letter, typed, signed Ian, in ink, dated 11.11.83 on his Little Sparta/Raspberry Republic headed paper. Sets out the outline of the dispute, with extensive commentary on the Judith Hart 'Paper' and her subsequent behaviour; 'To Hart, law is irrelevant (ultimately), and the citizen is irrelevant: what matters is that everything should be 'Arranged' by a few special people---in the interests of her 'vote'. It would be hard to find attitudes more openly Chile'. Copy of a bank transfer from P.M.Heringa of Amsterdam to the bank account of Hamilton Finlay 'Towards the Victory', dated 12.Oct 83. A copy of a letter from the Sherrif's Officer George Walker & Co to Hamilton Finlay...
Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

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