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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Battle of Britain Day September 15 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-12598-12830
Scope and Contents

This depicts the sky with white clouds and trails of white smoke from fighter planes' exhausts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Battle of Midway / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-12106-12330
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1976

Battle of the Atlantic, Livingston / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-33058-34683
Scope and Contents

The card depicts three photographs, two a side view of the a row of houses. One of these views depicts two stripes, the other one stripe painted onto the houses. The middle photograph depicts a lettered wall of Finlay's sculpture "vague wave." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Battle of the Flowers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35443-37179
Scope and Contents

The title and line drawn image of a ship on the front of this card refer to the British naval corvette ships of the Flower class. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Bee/Boat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35365-37099
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1997

Betula Pendula 2 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-12032-12255
Scope and Contents

This depicts an armored tank among Silver Birch trees. It contrasts with the first version in that the first had tree leaves immeshed in the netting over the tank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Betula Pendula / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12156-12380
Scope and Contents

Betula Pendula refers to Silver Birch. The image on this card is an armored tank camouflaged by netting covered with tree leaves. A sketch of this image is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Beutiful Kydippe: A Proposal for the Garden of Dr and Mrs Herkenhoner, Hennef, Germany / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-12510-12737
Scope and Contents

The words, Beautiful Kydippe, incised into a tree-bark by Callimachus (270 B.C.) are transcribed into a stone plaque (print image) shaped to the trunk of a tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Bicentenary Tricolour , 1989

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Identifier: CC-10992-11206
Scope and Contents

The poem on the French tricolor flag reads, "Liberty for Some; Equality for Some; Fraternity for Some" rather than "for All." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Bicentenary Tricolour / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-12365-12591
Scope and Contents

Image depicts the French Tricolored Flag with inscription, Liberty for some, Equality for some, and Fraternity with some. This epithat refers to the rejection of Finlay's commission by the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Bielefelder Colloquium Neue Poesie, 3.: Ihre gewunschte. / Bodo Hell., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-35956-37720
Scope and Contents

The image on this poster is shelves of vacuum tubes labelled with prices and identification. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Bilder Kalendar 71: Der Beste Ehemann. No.12/Dec / Arno Waldschmidt., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-53834-642893
Scope and Contents

The texts are on the bottom of the print in German and Yiddish.The translation reads, "If our grandmother would have had a beard what would have been if she would have been a grandfather." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971