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Folder 61

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

Scottish Zulu , 1970

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12438-12665
Scope and Contents

Depicts Scottish sailing ship with black sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Topiary Aircraft Carrier , 1972

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12439-12666
Scope and Contents

Depicts a silhouette of an aircraft carrier as a topiary object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Homage to Mozart , 1970

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12478-12705
Scope and Contents

Depicts a sailing ship with its name "Mozart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

A Proposal for The Robert Louis Stevenson Club , 1987

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12489-12716
Scope and Contents

The poem to be inscribed as "A Man of Letters R.L.S." on a formal stone with irregular edges is inscribed with a 'one-word poem' and set in the grass within a small grove of birch trees" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Portsmouth City Art Project: The Water's Hours and The Sky's Hours, 1973

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12801-13088
Scope and Contents

This depicts two adjacent, brown colored, ceramic or concrete, vertical slabs lettered The Water's Hours with levels drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals and The Sky's Hours with strokes of a sundial drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals, respectively. In Oct 1973, Harvey writes to Finlay with descriptions of proposals for the Portsmith City Art Project, viz., Water's & Sky's Hours and Numbered Sails. Finlay replied within a week with minor modifications prior to their submission into the competition. He adds a note of encouragement to Harvey, "So the question is, who will get the Third Prize (As we have won the First and Second)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Portsmith City Art Project: Numbered Sails , 1973

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12807-13094
Scope and Contents

The watercolor depicts four ceramic, varied colored sail shapes with numbers from Scottish sail boats. The signature is Michael Harvey's but he has also printed Susan Goodricke's name adjacent to his. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

The Poor Fisherman, 1987

 Item — Folder: 61
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

Klassische Landschaft , 1985

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12569-12801
Scope and Contents

Two versions of a landscape by Johann Christian Reinhart are altered by the words Xaipe and W ave inscribed into stones in the foreground. The former means hail or farewell in Greek and ave in the latter picture means the same in Latin. The addition of w creating the word wave relates to the flowing spring. There is a stone in Finlay's garden inscribed WAVE/ave. Printed by the Stellar Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Lasciate Ogni Speranza... , 1987

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12900-13191
Scope and Contents

This admonishment in Italian by the Saint-Just Vigilantes means in English, "Abandon every hope to you that enter!" It refers to the Strathclyde tax collectors with whom Finlay had a major dispute. This print appeared in two versions, printed in red and in black; this version is printed in black; the other version in red is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Lasciate Ogni Speranza..., 1987

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12901-13192
Scope and Contents

This admonishment in Italian by the Saint-Just Vigilantes means in English, "Abandon every hope to you that enter!" It refers to the Strathclyde tax collectors with whom Finlay had a major dispute. This print appeared in two versions, printed in red and in black; this version is printed in red; the other version in black is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Penny Browns , 1982

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12356-12582
Scope and Contents

The print depicts toy sailing ships on water with brown sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Luftwaffe after Mondrian , 1976

 Item — Folder: 61
Identifier: CC-12431-12658
Scope and Contents

This image is adapted from an early Mondrian abstracted painting and depicts crosses of various sizes and shadings that act as a metaphor for the cross on Luftwaffe airplanes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976