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Furnival, John, 1933-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933-05-29-

Found in 424 Collections and/or Records:

[Saturn J Mar] / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13301-13602
Scope and Contents

The print on translucent paper lists a circular stream of words, printed in different colors, that relate to celestial bodies. These float over the second print that depicts a large silver globe with latitude and longitude lines. Disintegrating silver capital "V's and other letterforms on the outer border of the globe provide an visual effect that it is spinning. The printing on this work is unusually sophisticated and might have been done in collaboration with A. Doyle Moore, a master printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Seated Nude Woman] / Furnival, John., 1955

 Item
Identifier: CC-13234-13535
Scope and Contents

Nude female figure is depicted seated on a wooden chair. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

[Seated Nude Woman] / Furnival, John., 1955

 Item
Identifier: CC-13235-13536
Scope and Contents

Nude female figure is depicted seated on a bed. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

Selected Works of the Last Twenty Years / Furnival, John ; Martin H ; Zurbrugg N ; DellaGrazia P., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35500-37237
Scope and Contents

The catalogue mentions that Furnival's works are held by the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Self-portrait in a Teapot / Furnival, John; Vince, John., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13181-13482
Scope and Contents

In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Self-portrait in the Glaze of a Teapot (1) / Furnival, John; Vince, John., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13179-13480
Scope and Contents

In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Self-portrait in the Glaze of a Teapot (2) / Furnival, John., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13180-13481
Scope and Contents

In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Semper Impermeabile] / John Furnival., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-29442-30807
Scope and Contents

This fabric crest with the image of an open umbrella was designed by Furnival probably for his Dorothy series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Semper Impermeabile] / John Furnival., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-29442-30807
Scope and Contents

This fabric crest with the image of an open umbrella was designed by Furnival probably for his Dorothy series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Seven Ancient Greek Ladies] / Furnival, John., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-13240-13541
Scope and Contents

Furnival has collaged seven female figures in Greek-like garments to a background of abstact markings stepping around a central large eye. The shape of the paper is a septagon. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Seventy Seventies for Eugen Gomringer / Furnival, John., 1993

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13174-13475
Scope and Contents

Depicts the number "70" seventy times with different typefaces and sizes and overlays as homage to Gomringer's 70th birthday. In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Seventy Sixty Fifty Not Out! Well Played, Sir!, 1999

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-33470-35114
Scope and Contents

The print, done in commemoration of Jonathan Williams' 70th birthday, shows him playing cricket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[Shakespeare, His Maze] / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13225-13526
Scope and Contents

The calligraphic text at the bottom of the work reads, "Shakespeare, his maze, His Queen, the Lord Southampton, & the dark lady, with the gestures of Rhetorick." Each of the above mentioned is pictured in the print. Several of these elements are present in the drawing on wooden board held in the Sackner Archive. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Shakespeare, His Maze / Furnival, John., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-13332-13633
Scope and Contents

The maze is composed of large letters in which the Lord of Southampton, the dark lady and the Queen are standing. A portrait of Shakespeare is drawn within a pyramid. Beneath that is an alphabet of hand signs. The imagery is taken from the drawing, "The Dark Lady" that is held by the Sackner Archive. This print is depicted on page 84 of Furnival's book "The Locative-Vocative Cases" (2012) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Shed Shed Shed / Furnival, John., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-13281-13582
Scope and Contents

This depicts a nude figure of a poet drawn in a classical mode in the midground who looks to a group of retreating boys chanting shed, shed, shed as a cartoon-like bubble. The poet says, "Shed your inhibitions, boys." A jester in the foreground state "In which the poet left for dead finally begins to practice what he preaches!" This drawing served as an illustration (page 27) to Michael Horowitz's poem, "The Wolverhampton Wanderer" 1971 (held by Sackner Archive). Drawing is stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Six Variations on An Unoriginal, Adverbial (But Dull) Theme / Furnival, John., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-13336-13637
Scope and Contents

Depicts a winter landscape with bare trees and rolling hills through a window. The title is printed in red in the upper right. "Rather," the adverb referenced in the title, is printed in blind intaglio capital letters to the right of center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Sixty Sixties for Tom / Furnival, John; Phillips T., 1997

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-28464-29734
Scope and Contents

Image consists of the sixty red number '60's' with varied dimensions placed in a vertical rectangular space with some of the numbers overlapping. It was done n celebration of Tom Phillips' 60th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Sketch of a Woman] / Furnival, John., 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-13208-13509
Scope and Contents

Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

[Sketches of Baby Heads] / Furnival, John., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-13213-13514
Scope and Contents

The verso is a sketch of a resting baby, no doubt one of the Furnival children. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Smith Paint Co.] / John Furnival., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13289-13590
Scope and Contents

An image on this painter's cap found by Furnival during his sabbatical year at Anderson Foundation in Rosewell was re-invented on his screen "Fifty-one Towers of Babel" commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Specifically, the American eagle, perfectly rendered, holds a can of paint in one talon and a paint brush in the other with the found phrase from the cap "Paint-Up America" in a banner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

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Concrete poetry 109
Visual art 78
Visual poetry 71
Picture poetry 67
Documentation 55