Scope and Contents This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture in the foregound [entitled eagle] and bushes in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre-class battleship Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924. Her completion was delayed by labour troubles and the possibility that she might be repurchased by Chile for reconversion into a battleship, as well as the need for comparative trials to determine the optimum layout for aircraft carriers. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet and then later to the China Station, spending very little time in home waters other than for...

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This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture fountain in the foreground [entitled Karl Doorman] with the Albion sculpture in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 "“ February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed during the Battle of the Java Sea. Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a close-up photograph taken by George Oliver of the aircraft carrier sculpture fountain [entitled Karl Doorman]in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 "“ February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed during the Battle of the Java Sea. Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture in the backgound [entitled albion] and another of an aircraft carrier sculpture fountain in the foreground [entitled Karl Doorman] in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 "“ February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed during the Battle of the Java Sea. Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture fountain in the foreground [entitled Karl Doorman] with people in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 "“ February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed during the Battle of the Java Sea. Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Drawings are silhouettes of fighter aircraft viewed from above. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Printed by the Stellar Press. Each page depicts a picture poem some of which subsequently were made into prints and cards, e.g., Venus of the Hours and H)our Lady. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gardner iIlustrates eight brief poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay (3), Stuart Mills (2), and Simon Cutts (3) with abstract colored designs on facing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The black and white photographs on the front and back covers depict two toy sailing boats in a pond. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems are constellations to describe the photographs of the two Alpine scenes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The line (sentence) on the inside of the unfolded card reads, "The mute dispenser of the vernal shower." Vernal means youth or pertaining to spring and "vernal shower." It was utilized in a poem by Thomas Gray (British, 1771-1771) as "Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting full, but sweeter yet. The still small voice of gratitude." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover of the leaflet is printed on blue paper, the unbound page on rose colored paper. This references Picasso's Blue and Rose periods of painting around the turn of the century. The poem is taken from the French revolutionary J.L. David's Instructions for the Festival of the Supreme Being, 1794 in which he describes his vision, ...Mothers will hold bouquets of roses in their hands, and girls will carry baskets filled with flowers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the works to this exhibition were loaned from the Sackner Archive but artists such as John Furnival and Margaret Riggs also loaned their works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The prints are tipped onto the papercard folder on its inner covers. One of the prints that is colored depicts a landscape surrounding the Temple of Fame, Studley Royal. The other print lists ancient dictionary definitions of dove; Dove, n. a flute-haunting bird; East, n., one of the four corners of the sphere; Fame, n., an effervescence; Gnomon, n., a rod, astaff, the shepard of hours; Horizon, n., a liberation, a bound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a contradictory quotation from classical literature along with a definition of a single word to a page, e.g., honey, ripple, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the cover is Roseby Willow-Herb that is also the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Deals with an oil painting by Hornel dated 1918 being shown in the Demarco Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card depicts two colored photographs of a painting of the same country estate. The top one that is captioned, "An uninviting garden" is landscaped with plants. The bottom one that has been stripped of almost all of its landscaping and with a fence in front is captioned, "The same garden, supposedly improved by Strathclyde Region with the support of the Scottish Arts Council." The poem is a metaphor for Finlay's conflict over taxation of his gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image consists of two funeral urns, one labeled, Sophie, the other Xstus. The poem reads, Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the cover depicts a flotilla of sail boats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.