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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.4 / Phillips, Tom; Furnival A; Ackerman M; Ackerman D; Sackner MA., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-54368-643252
Scope and Contents

Titled Dante in Winggield, Phillips writes that Astrid Furnival " has knitted me a new Dante sweater from the olive oil label etc." An actual label is collaged on the right side of this page next to a tag for Dante yarn. The newsprint is an advertisement of Dante's Inferno which is described "in the Sunday Times as stupendous, breathtakingly sumptous...epic...impressive limited de-lux edition took seven years to make." The handwritten dairy continues the tale of progress with a TV Dante. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.7 / Phillips, Tom; Furnival A., 1985

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Identifier: CC-54371-643255
Scope and Contents

Titled "Dante in Rotterdam" the upper left corner contains a map of Holland. At the bottom center is a photograph of Phillips wearing his Dante sweater knitted by Astrid Furnival at Angela Flowers Gallery celebrating the publication of Dante's Inferno by Thames and Hudson. In the center section there is an ink sketch for the Quimerexhibition catalogues. The top right contains an invitation to Phillips' lecture "Dante: From Folio to Video" at the Byam Shaw school of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.22 / Phillips, Tom; Phillips L; Furnival A; Furnival J., 1986

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Identifier: CC-54390-989907
Scope and Contents

This collage is titled "Welcome Back to A TV Dante." There is a collaged parking ticket on the left side of the page from Dante Rd that Phillips writes he had sought for years . Astrid or John Furnival provided him with the photographs of L'Inferno restaurant on the bottom left and Leo Phillips took the photograph of the Thames & Hudson Dante in the window of Zwemmer's book store. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

[Dear Ruth and Marvin] / John Furnival; A Furnival., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46232-48950
Scope and Contents

This letter to the Sackners is handwritten in a circle on the back of a round cardboard advertising French Camembert cheese. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[Dear Ruth and Marvin] / John Furnival; A Furnival., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46232-48950
Scope and Contents

This letter to the Sackners is handwritten in a circle on the back of a round cardboard advertising French Camembert cheese. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Dorothy / Furnival, John, editor ; Bailey P ; Albert-Birot P ; Cox K ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Kostelanetz R ; Phillips T., 1979

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Identifier: CC-12234-12458
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was printed for a group exhibition organized by Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Dorothy's Umbrellas / Furnival, John, editor ; Bailey P ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Meyer T ; Phillips T ; Davies H., 1971

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Identifier: CC-36214-38001
Scope and Contents

This group exhibition was held at Nottingham Testival, Bristol Arts Centre and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tom Phillips contributed "The Singing Mushroom: Poem for John Cage" and a page from "A Humument" both of which are reproduced in color in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Dorothy's Umbrellas / Furnival, John, editor ; Bailey P ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Meyer T ; Phillips T ; Davies H., 1971

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Identifier: CC-13137-13434
Scope and Contents

This group exhibition was held at Nottingham Testival, Bristol Arts Centre and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tom Phillips contributed "The Singing Mushroom: Poem for John Cage" and a page from "A Humument" both of which are reproduced in color in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

La Reine Astrid / Furnival, John; Furnival, Astrid., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35336-37070
Scope and Contents

This is an invitation to Astrid Furnival's 60th birthday party designed by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Letter to my dear John [Sharkey] (230965) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Furnival A; Furnival J; Cox K; Williams J; Johnson R., 1965

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Identifier: CC-56625-58863
Scope and Contents

Houedard mentions Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, John and Astrid Furnival and Ken Cox. Houedard writes at the page bottom, "just did poem for polluted lake: dedicated to ernst jandl: vienna circle: WA wa wa - WA wa wa - LLLLL - tz tz" The Polluted Lake Series was edited and published by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Letter to Robin Wakefield] / Furnival, Astrid; Houedard DS; Sharkey JJ., 1965

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Identifier: CC-13204-13505
Scope and Contents

Furnival thanks Wakefield, a collector, for subscription to Plakats and describes other publications of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Photographs from Roswell, New Mexico] / Furnival, John; Furnival, Astrid., 1984

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Identifier: CC-12236-12460
Scope and Contents

These photographs, taken during the year's artists-in-residence in Rosewell, show the Furnivals posing with the completed works including "The Big Apple" sweater, "Fifty-one Towers of Babel," "A-Z of Consumerville" all held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Photographs of Works in Progress] / Furnival, John; Furnival, Astrid., 1984

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Identifier: CC-12292-12516
Scope and Contents

John Furnival's work includes "Fifty-One Towers of Babel," and Astrid Furnival's work "The Garden" both held in the Sackner Archive. Another photograph shows the coral rock the Sackners gave the Furnivals cemented into their wall in Gloustershire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Wools Dyed with Natural Dyes / Astrid Furnival., 1984

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Identifier: CC-49298-70340
Scope and Contents

These are the color samples used by Astrid Furnival for her knitted work "The Garden." The colors were from plants grown in her garden. The Sackner Archive holds the knitted work which is based on the poem "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell. This is stored with John Furnival material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Wools Dyed with Natural Dyes / Astrid Furnival., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-49298-70340
Scope and Contents

These are the color samples used by Astrid Furnival for her knitted work "The Garden." The colors were from plants grown in her garden. The Sackner Archive holds the knitted work which is based on the poem "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell. This is stored with John Furnival material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984