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Furnival, John, 1933-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933-05-29-

Found in 425 Collections and/or Records:

Bunting at Brigflatts / Furnival, John., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-13296-13597
Scope and Contents

This depicts the poet Basil Bunting standing outside his house with the caption, "all sounds fall still, fellside bleat, hide-and-seek peewit." The Archive hold the print from the Letters to the Great Dead Series with the same image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Ca - Tea-Leaves! / Furnival, John; Picabia F; Satie E., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13260-13561
Scope and Contents

Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Card to Bob (Cobbing)] / Furnival, John., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-13201-13502
Scope and Contents

Furnival requests additional information about the proposed Stedlijk Museum exhibition, the dates and the financial arrangements. The recto of the card is Openings Press Card Series No.6: Furnival: Bestiary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Card to George (Dowden)] / Furnival, John., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-13202-13503
Scope and Contents

Message is written on verso of Openings Press Card Series No. 6 (Bestiary). Furnival invites Dowden to give a reading at Corsham Court and sends him six Plakat cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[card to John sharkey - wld] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Furnival J., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56712-58865
Scope and Contents

This typed message begins "wld be mad world if everyone were sane --so-- we are in gloucester -- but only just" The text gives directions to Prinknash Abbey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Celebrating a Life's Work 1927 - 1968 / Cox, Kenelm; Clark TA; Brett G; Finlay IH; Bann S; Furnival J; Reichardt J; Houedard DS., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-54581-990027
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds a Clock that was made by Kenelm Cox on behalf of Dom Sylvester Houedard. Also in the Archive is the sculpture Suncycle that was planned with Nicholas Logsdale at the Lisson Gallery, cast in brass and sold as a multiple without a motor. The author title for this book is "Ken Cox." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Celia at Lower Hardacre / Furnival, John., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28602-29891
Scope and Contents

The edition size is unknown. This print is depicted on page 142 of Furnival's book, "The Locative-Vocartive Cases." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Charles Tomlinson - from Photograph by Robyn Beeche / Furnival, John., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13216-13517
Scope and Contents

This black and white portrait depicts Tomlinson holding the skull of an animal. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Check List / Circle Press ; Tyson I ; Furnival J ; Campbell K ; King R ; Christie J., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-17123-17481
Scope and Contents

John Furnival's sculpture HA-HA!, held by Sackner Archive, is depicted on back book cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

cher poete (010864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Furnival J; Finlay IH; Sharkey JJ; Willett J., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-57843-10001095
Scope and Contents

This letter is addressed such that each letter of the uppercase title is formed by multiple lowercase letters of same letter.The pages have binder holes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

cher poete [Letter to Charles Cameron} / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Furnival J; Morgan E., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-57842-10001094
Scope and Contents

The letter includes the words cher poete, eve and silvester created with 'c's,' 'p's,' 'e's' and periods, respectively. The pages have binder holes. Eve is Charles Cameron girlfriend. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Christmas / Holiday Broadside: An Arabesk for Frederick Delius at the Year's End. No.3 / John Furnival ; Jonathan Williams., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-12230-12454
Scope and Contents

This is a Christmas broadside from The University Libraries with drawing by Furnival and poetry by Williams. The title of this series was later changed to Holiday Broadside. The edition consists of 50 numbered and signed copies. The Sackner copy is signed but unnumbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Claude Has Come into the Garden, 1974

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-13292-13593
Scope and Contents

Depicts a drawing of Claude Debussy standing at the front of a labyrinth, with architectural renderings at the left, parts of Debussy's music in the clouds, and a bat in storm clouds at the top right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Claypits / Furnival, John., 1961

 Item
Identifier: CC-13207-13508
Scope and Contents

This is a landscape scene that is stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

[Clock Mechnism/Man's Head and Hand] / Furnival, John., 1955

 Item
Identifier: CC-13231-13532
Scope and Contents

The vertical clock mechanism is depicted with the glass cover off, the key and pendulum on the side. The head and hand drawings on the verso (horizontal) are both rendered with strong hash marks. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

Close-up. Rooksmoor / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-13173-13474
Scope and Contents

Rooksmoor is the name of Furnival's house/village. The image depicts a black and white rendition of a Lungwort that was adapted from a watercolor sent to the Sackners as part of a letter (1991) from Furnival. In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

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Subject
Concrete poetry 110
Visual art 78
Visual poetry 71
Picture poetry 67
Documentation 55