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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:

National Flags Series: Utopia / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12013-12236
Scope and Contents

The image of the flag is an empty rectangle serving as a metaphor for Utopia according to Finlay where no individual nations exist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

National Flags Series: Valhalla / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12018-12241
Scope and Contents

Image conmsists of three armored black tanks lined up horizontally on a background of a red colored diamond shape. The red color element signifies shelling and destruction of these tanks by their enemy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Nature Is the Devil / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12167-12391
Scope and Contents

In this card, Finlay interprets Samuel Coleridge statement "Nature is the Devil in a fancy waistcoat" to "Nature is a storm trooper in a camouflage smock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Nature Is the Devil... / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12996-13288
Scope and Contents

Finlay substitutes the words, storm trooper and camouflage smock for the Devil and fancy waistcoat, respectively, in the following quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Nature is the Devil in a fancy waistcoat." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Nature over again after Poussin / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S ; Paterson W., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-12533-12761
Scope and Contents

Wilma Paterson contributed a music score on "julie.' Finlay contributed two pages on "Unconnected Sentences on Gardening" including "A Garden is not an object but a process, Modern Sculpture is "Wilfuly" ignorant, Technology - Epic Convenience, A liberal's compost heap is his castle, and Weather is the chief content of a garden, Camouflage is the last form of classical landscape painting - It represents not 'this' tree but fields and trees, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Necktank (1918) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-12355-12581
Scope and Contents

This image of a World War I armored vehicle is camouflaged with red and yellow stripes causing a play on words, viz., necktank vs. necktie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Neoclassicism Needs You / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12083-12307
Scope and Contents

The image is a sailor in uniform with his hand outstretched as might be depicted in a war poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Neoclassicisme Revolutionnaire / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12184-12408
Scope and Contents

The image on the card is a classical pot with a fishnet draped from the top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Neoclassicisme Revolutionnaire / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12470-12697
Scope and Contents

The image in black and white is of a classical pot with a fishnet draped from the top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Net Markers of the Disciples: SP / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33642-35301
Scope and Contents

The poem refers to a New Testament biblical text in Mathew 4 about fishing with nets; SP signifies Simon Peter's net marker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Net Markers of the Disciples: SP / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33642-35301
Scope and Contents

The poem refers to a New Testament biblical text in Mathew 4 about fishing with nets; SP signifies Simon Peter's net marker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Net/Planet / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-11931-12154
Scope and Contents

In this card, different names of fishing nets are printed in black in the form of spokes of a wheel ending with "planet" printed in gray. According to Murray's Finlay bibliography, the card was published in 1969 but the verso of the card shows the date as 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Nets / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-11875-12096
Scope and Contents

The word "nets" is shaped in the form of a weather vane, a metaphor for catching wind rather than fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Neun Vorschlage fur Einen Wald (Nine Proposals for a Forest in Landesgartenschau Grevenbroich) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Costley, Ron., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12602-12834
Scope and Contents

The book depicts impressionistic watercolors of poems mostly adapted from classic literature on tree plaques or as sculptures among the trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

New Boat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35237-36971
Scope and Contents

The image on the card depicts a drawing of the aft section of a sail boat and the citation gives a poetic homage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

New Directions. No.22 / Ferlinghetti L ; Finlay IH., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-38332-40230
Scope and Contents

This issue includes 16 pages of b&w photographic reproductions of outdoor concrete poetic works by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

New Publications: Autumn 1971 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-12323-12549
Scope and Contents

One copy has ink additions presumably written by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971