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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 250 Collections and/or Records:

Spring Song / Lax, Robert., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-56470-55904
Scope and Contents

One copy is folded, the other copy is unfolded and scored. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Standing Poem 1: Pear/Appear / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-11963-12186
Scope and Contents

This is the first card designed by Finlay. This copy needs to be cleaned and has a small tear on one edge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Standing Poem 1: Pear/Appear / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-11964-12187
Scope and Contents

This is the first card designed by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Surveillance Sketch / Mancini, Donato., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-49551-70599
Scope and Contents

The text was produced from conversations overheard during a week in a surreal artificial tourist/commercial area on the edge of Vancouver's downtown area. As such, it is akin to Martin Wilner'a artist books that record text and images from passengers on the NY subway trains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Team Poem / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-00663-679
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed by adding a line appropriated from different classical poems by such poets as Marvell, Dryden, Jonson, Pope, Wordsworth, etc. It was printed by Milke Taylor at the Literary House Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Thank You Ruth and Marvin / Valdes-Faldi, Jose; Boren, Shed., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47618-68630
Scope and Contents

This is a "thank you card" for being invited to the 30th birthday party for Patrick Quigley held at the Sackner's apartment in 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

The Day the Sea Spoke / Wright, Edward., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-54529-989991
Scope and Contents Wikipedia Edward Wright (16 July 1912 "“ 16 October 1988) was a painter, typographer and graphic designer.[In the early 1950s he was a member of the Independent Group, and taught at the Central School of Art with Anthony Froshaug, Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi. He designed the catalogue for the exhibition This Is Tomorrow at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1956.Wright later taught at the London College of Printing, Cambridge University School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art. His architectural lettering work included the foundation stone for Churchill College, Cambridge (1961), and the Flaxman lettering and numbering system for New Scotland Yard's rotating sign (1968), Wright's original concept for which was that its '"revolving triangular shape and reflective steel lettering was symbolic of the Met's constant vigilance in guarding our safety.'[6] in 1963, Wright was a signatory of Ken Garland's First Things First manifesto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...
Dates: 1969

The Ivy, 1990

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-04099-4177
Scope and Contents

The first copy was acquired in 1991; a second copy with slightly different color registrations and higher prices published in 2007 is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Ivy, 2006

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-54481-989960
Scope and Contents

The first copy was acquired in 1991 and held by the Sackner Archive; this second copy with slightly different color registrations and higher prices was published in 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Land's Shadows / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stevenson, Ann., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-11925-12148
Scope and Contents

Ann Stevenson is the maiden name of Ann Noel, the wife of Emmett Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968