Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006
Nationality
Scottish
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose: Gertrude Jekyll, 1978
Gertrude Jekyll was a leading designer of gardens. The rose of Gertrude Stein's well known poem can also be identified as the tip of the old-fashioned garden watering can. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Shaded Path (1) , 1987
This is a proposal for a straight and level path of 78 clay bricks stamped with names of Virgil in place of the maker's name. The path is to be built indoors, on a level floor, or out-of-doors on any grass-covered level ground without shade. Finlay s walk upon but for the mind to follow. It leads from Carl Andre's brick compositions to an elegiac classicism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Flowers: Fill in the Flowers with Colours, 1977
This poem was composed after a work by Tom and Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finlay & Marshall McLuhan, 1968
Printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finley & Marshall McLuhan, 1968
Printed on gray paper; the Sackner Archive also has a copy printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Matisse Chez Duplay / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1989
Proposal: A Shaded Path (2) , 1989
This is a proposal for a garden path of bricks stamped with names of trees taken from Sir William Temple's book "Gardens in Virgil's Time," viz., 'The trees were the elm, the pine, the lime-tree, and the Platanus, or plame-tree, whose leaf and shade, of all others, was the most in request...' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Spitfire Segments/Messerschmitt Mottle / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1975
This print is not listed in Finlay's book, Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
