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Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27

Nationality

Scottish

Found in 1986 Collections and/or Records:

Willow / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12497-12724
Scope and Contents

The poem is printed as a single or two letter vertical arrangement on a green background, viz., "tree leaved with mists." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Wind in Ripe Barley / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-42860-44901
Scope and Contents

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Windjammer / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Fidler, Martin., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12052-12276
Scope and Contents

This drawing depicts the ouline of a propeller driven airplane. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Windmills Enter Arms Race / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Willcocks, Jonathan; Furnival J., 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12407-12633
Scope and Contents

This is a varient copy of a print with the same title in Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. The overlaid text in this print as well as the colors differ from the print in the portfolio. The finished print has words printed in blue and bluish-purple and the varient copy is printed in green and light blue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Windmills Winding Waters / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-10813-11023
Scope and Contents

Each word of the title is printed in white on a red background, one word to each leaf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Window / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12954-13246
Scope and Contents

The image depicts an impressionist painting of a seascape by P.W. Steer with scattered small whitecaps on the waves. The latter serve as a metaphor for the "Window" in this context which signifies the tin foil strips scattered from aircraft to confuse enemy radar during WW II. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Winter / Greenwood, Nigel ; Finlay IH ; Duchamp M ; Lax R ; Piper A ; Tilson Jo ; Boltanski C ; Warhol A., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10262-10465
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Within the System of Greek Architecture / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-10957-11169
Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Wood Notes Wild: Essays on the Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12921-13213
Scope and Contents

The prior published essays in this book, edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay's son, present a comprehensive survey of his father's poetry and art, from 1958 to 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Woodpaths / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Hill, Solveig., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-11817-12036
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Woods and Seas / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-13287-13588
Scope and Contents

The words "bark," "barque" and "baroque" are printed one to a page along with a small illustration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Words and Things: Concrete Poetry / Supersigns / Multiple Languages / Jones, Patrick, editor ; Tipping R ; Selenitsch A ; Finlay IH ; Riddell A ; Bohn W ; Baxter G ; O'Mara P ; Sierra M ; Tyndall P., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-50814-71892
Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Words for a Fountain / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11102-11317
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Wordsworth Wadsworth / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Downie, Jim., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11268-11483
Scope and Contents The curve lines and jagged bars images on a dark green background that Finlay has drawn related to Wordsworth and Longfellow, respectively are difficult to interpret and probably not biographical in nature as follows below. According to to Roberto Rabe (internet), "probably the best loved of American poets the world over is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Many of his lines are as familiar to us as rhymes from Mother Goose or the words of nursery songs learned in early childhood. Like these rhymes and melodies, they remain in the memory and accompany us through life. There are two reasons for the popularity and significance of Longfellow's poetry. First, he had the gift of easy rhyme. He wrote poetry as a bird sings, with natural grace and melody. Read or heard once or twice, his rhyme and meters cling to the mind long after the sense may be forgotten." According to The Literature Network (internet), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet, credited with ushering in the English...
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Work In Progress on Bridge Piers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stirling, Annet; Berman, Brenda., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-12210-12434
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a color photograph on its verso of a calligraphically carved stone sculpture being sited near a bridge in Glasgow and a photographic reproduction of an abstract expressionist painting by Vladimit Kokolia on its recto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Works / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Greenhalgh, Martyn ; Nash J ; Clark L ; Harvey M ; Fine J ; Campion P., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-11848-12069
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was designed by Finlay. The 10 photographs in this book from Finlay's garden are captioned with text from Finlay's "Detached Sentances on Gardening." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Works In Europe 1972-1995, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-13126-13423
Scope and Contents

This publication which was edited by Zdenek Felix and Pia Simig was published on the occasion of Finlay's exhibition entitled Works - Pure and Political at Diechtorhallen, Hamburg Germany in 1995. Includes photographs b&w of Finlay's sculptural works, documentation on their significance, and a listing of his collaborators. Archival material forming the basis for several of these works is held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart (1972). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Wreathing of Rockets / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12098-12322
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, wreathing of rockets - dusting of dreadnoughts - greening of gun-sites - parading of panzers - dressing of wells. It is captioned, "Traditioningly the dressing of wells takes place in the spring.' - Newspaper report. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Xmas Rose / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival, John., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11960-12183
Scope and Contents

Also designated Poem/Print No.14 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Xmas Rose / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival, John., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11961-12184
Scope and Contents

Also designated Poem/Print No.14. The inscription appears to be in Sue Finlay's handwriting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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