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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:

The Other Way to Edinburgh / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-42862-44903
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

The Oxford Guide to Word Games / Augard, Tony ; Carroll L ; Gomringer E ; Apollinaire G ; Herbert G ; Finlay IH ; Morgan E ; Williams E., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-26710-27180
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology with definitions and examples of topics that include Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, Acrostics, Word Squares, Crosswords, Scrabble, Anagrams, Rebuses, Chronograms, Palindromes, Panagrams, Lipograms, Letter Games, Alphabet Games, Playing with Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Tongue Twisters, Spoonerisms, Lapsus Linguae, Games of Lewis Carroll, Consequences, Twenty Questions, Hangman, Puns, and The Longest Word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Plowers Plowed upon my Back / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35376-37111
Scope and Contents

The poem was taken from Psalm 129, v 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Poor Fisherman, 1987

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Identifier: CC-12494-12721
Scope and Contents

The image in this poem has been modified from a figurative painting by Puvis de Chavnannes through addition of a French republican tricolor button to the mast of his boat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Poor Fisherman / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Macmillan, Duncan., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-11844-12065
Scope and Contents

This exhibition of Finlay's works is based upon the painting by Puvis de Chavannes entitled "The Poor Fisherman." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Present Order Is the Disorder of the Future / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12077-12301
Scope and Contents

This card provides instructions for cutting out the words of this poem that have been carved on stones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Present Order:Writings on Ian Hamilton Finlay / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Caitlin Murray, curator ; Tim Johnson, curator ; Finlay A ; Moeglin-Delcroix A ; Charlesworth M ; Perloff M ; Goldsmith K ; Schwartzburg M ; Scobie S ; Herbert G., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-53998-642971
Scope and Contents

Ths publication of the book coincided with an exhibition of Finlay's printed works at the Marfa Book Company in Marfa, Texas. It was entitled "Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Selelection of Printed Works." All the works displayed in this exhibition are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

The Sacramento Proposal: Sculpture for the 1201 K Street Office Tower / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; McLeish, Neil., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-12552-12780
Scope and Contents

The sculpture utilizes the word "cloud" in five languages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Sea-Bed and Other Stories / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1958

 Item
Identifier: CC-11677-11895
Scope and Contents

This is Finlay's first book. Woodcut illustrations were made by Zeljko Kujundzic. In Finlay's catalogues of printed works, it is stated that Alna Press co-published this book, but no mention of Alna Press appears on this copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

The Sea's Waves' Sheaves / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Barrie, Stuart., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-11974-12197
Scope and Contents

The card is folded twice to give three panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

The Sea's Waves Sheaves / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-11950-12173
Scope and Contents

This card folded twice has three leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Sign of the Nudge / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11954-12177
Scope and Contents

This is also designated Artist Cards No.25 in series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Sound of Running Water / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10977-11189
Scope and Contents

Consisits of a line of black staggered letters ending in the word Revolution printed in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Stamp Art and Postal History of Michael Thompson & Michael Hernandez de Luna / Thompson, Michael ; Hernandez de Luna, Michael ; Klein Y ; Watts B ; Maciunas G ; Banana A ; Felter J ; Anderson S ; Crane M ; Johnson R ; Ben ; Friedman K ; Carrion U ; Finlay IH ; Fricker H ; Dogfish., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-37769-39648
Scope and Contents

In his essay, "Pushing the envelope: Mail Art and the Michaels," Simon Anderson writes that both "Thomson and Hernandez de Luna paresent a sophisticated twist on this variegated [mail art] history, combining the random markers of official passage with a deliberate manipulation of the aesthetic involved; their small scale prints, connected to tahe much denser history of printmaking, dovetail at various points - inclusing teamwork, political humor nad tricksterism - with the fragmentary origins of art-through-the-mail, as this brief survey hopes to indicate." The illustrations depict the fake stamps and the cancelled stamps on envelopes indicating that the stamps went through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000