Documentation
Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:
Archive for Bronze Medals: USS Enterprise, Whimbrel and Petrel, and Midway 1 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Andrew, John., 1973
Archive for Correspondence between Ian Hamilton Finlay and U. Grant Roman / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; ; Roman, Grant U.; Finlay S., 1964
Archive for Homage to Malevich / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973
In July, Finlay writes to Harvey with instructions for two poem-prints, Homage to Malevich & Homage to Lax, & cover for Littack. Detailed instructions are included solely for the Malevich piece. Harvey returns drawings, comments about them & demonstr point by cutting the letter. With minor corrections, Finlay is happy with the drawings. Harvey notes that the chalky effect for the Malevich print will not work with silkscreen. In August, Finlay instructs Stellar Press to make print as a lithograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive for Silhouettes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie; Clark TA; Harvey M; cummings ee., 1974
Archive for Sundials and Sermons / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1973
In Sep 1973, Finlay writes to Coburn Britton, editor of Prose Magazine in NYC, with suggestions for submitting a piece involving captioned sundials and an adaptation from 17th century sermons. In Nov 1973, Britton replies that such a work is not suitable for his magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive for Tea-Bag Mine / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Cherry, Norman., 1973
Finlay proposes a collaboration with a Kelso jewelry maker, Norman Cherry, for a tea-mine. Finlay imagines a small metal object which should resemble a round metal object with protruding horns. this will unscrew into 2 parts so that tea can be put int it. It will then be posible to dangle it at th end of a chain to make tea. He encloses a diagram of a mine frm a naval book on mines to illustrate his point (diagram not in Archive). Since Cherry did not reply, this project was probably unrealized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive for Wave/Rock Project/Bridge for Scottish Arts Council / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1972 - 1974
Archive for Windflower Brooch / Windflower Medal / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Cherry, Norman; Harvey, Micheal., 1973 - 1975
Archive for Wooden Sundial / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael; Thorpe, John R.., 1973
Finlay provides instructions to John Thorpe, a woodcarver, for making a wooden sundial at Stonypath. He also explains the poem that he has written after Claudel, the French poet, translated by Edward Lucie-Smith. The poem was supposed to be written on a fan with fan its first word, but in Finlay's version "fan" is eliminated since the dial itself is fanlike. The poem begins, viz., "Poems written upon the breath" (metaphor for breeze). Harvey's letters deal with the drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive Listing of Ian Hamilton Finlay Books / Feine, Bob; Finlay IH., 1983
Feine describes in extensive detail an archive of 40 Finlay works that were subsequently purchased by the Sackner Archive. This list is filed under Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Arts diary / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988
Deals with Finlay's legal action against the French government because the French press claimed Finlay was an anti-semite and Nazi sympathiser. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
At the Field's Edge (4) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1976
The text is Finlay's instructions for the production of "At the Field's Edge." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Autumn List / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; DeCampos A ; Johnson R ; Furnival J ; Williams J ; Morgan E ; Albert-Birot P ; Mon F ; Kriwet F ; Lax R., 1965
Autumn: Publications in Print / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1972
Battle of Midway / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1976
The bee symbol in this drawing suggests the sea (bee) and hive symbolizing the aircraft carriers. The text is written in old English characters. This drawing served as preparatory drawings for a subsequently realized print that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Battle of Midway / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1976
Finlay writes about the World War II Battle of Midway4 June 1942 in poetic terms, viz., ...the great sea hives/consumed with their choicest swarms by their own flaming honey. The bee symbol is used to suggest the sea (bee) and hive symbolizing the aircraft carriers. The text is hand written and served as preparatory texts for a subsequently realized print that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Bee/Boat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997
The same poem from Virgil, "Georgics iv," is applied to both bees and boats; the poem reads, -- They lightly skim, And gently sip the dimply river's brim. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems and Photographs / Williams, John ; Duncan R ; Oppenheimer J ; Johnson R ; Olson C ; Patchen K ; Creeley R ; Finlay IH ; Meyer T ; Bunting B ; Hamilton AS ; Dickey J ; Gardner I ; Hawkins S ; Anthony B ; DuPlessix F ; Rexroth K., 2000
In this book of previously published brief essays and interviews, Jonathan Williams describes his publishing in Jargon as follows: "Most of the people we've published despise ninety-five percent of the others we've done - that's probably a very healthy thing. Remember, you're dealing with a hillbilly oligarch, a crank. Whether it's poetry of photography or visionary fold-art or persons themselves, I love things that are 'bright-eyed, non-uppity, autochthonous, wacko, private, isolate, unconventional, unpaved, non-commercial, non-nice, naive, outside, fantastic, sub-aesthetic, home-style and bushy-tailed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Boreas / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996
The image depicts a black and white line drawing of hands bending a plank for a model boat. The title "Boreas" means North wind and the poem reads, plank bender. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Brittany / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1996
The image on this card is a black and white drawing of a harbor scene in Brittany with nuns in the foreground after a painting by Maurice Dennis. The one-word poem is 'litany." Finlay quotes Caroline Boyle-Turner, "The painters felt that the peasants' lives had not changed since medieval times. They were also fascinated by the mystical character of the Bretons Catholicism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.