Picture poetry

Thornier, 1997

Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]

Identifier: CC-34974-36691

Scope and Contents

The print depicts a thorn with barbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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

Through a Dark Wood/Midway, 1976

Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]

Identifier: CC-11914-12136

Scope and Contents

Relates to the World War II battle of Midway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Through a Dark Wood/Midway, 1975

Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]

Identifier: CC-11915-12138

Scope and Contents

A folded sheet onto which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann accompanies this medallion. The image is a metaphor for the World War II battle of Midway in the South Pacific which was fought with airpower rather that ship to ship sightings. The text accompanying this work is stored in a box of Finlay booklets. -- 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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Thunderbolt Steers All, 1975

Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]

Identifier: CC-12423-12650

Scope and Contents

Image is an armored tank. -- 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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Totem, 1990

Item — Box 639: [Barcode: 31858072491388]

Identifier: CC-55172-9998

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 (processed) / Oversized Wally Depew

Tracepyramidsend Trianglesendsand, 1982

Item — Box 637: [Barcode: 31858072491362]

Identifier: CC-19218-19601

Scope and Contents

The shape that has been incised could be either a triangle or a pyramid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Robin Crozier

Two Horizons, 1998

Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]

Identifier: CC-31587-33085

Scope and Contents

The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Typewriter Birds Photocopied, 1954

Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]

Identifier: CC-42621-44638

Dates: 1954

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / William Jay Smith

Ulysses Was Here, 1979

Item — Box 640: [Barcode: 31858072491461]

Identifier: CC-11873-12094

Scope and Contents

A wash-like painting of the sky, the sea, a road, a desert, with "Ulysses Was Here" printed on the road in classical typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / F / Finlay, Ian Hamilton

Un Noyer peut en cacher un autre!, 1997

Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]

Identifier: CC-30429-31849

Scope and Contents

The print depicts a drawing of a tree barren of leaves with a single bird's nest, presumably in the Furnival's house in southern France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

visualisation... (250164), 1964-1966

Item — Box 643

Identifier: CC-56699-10000087

Dates: 1964-1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

Windowmill, 1967

Item — Box unknown: [Barcode: 31858073143665]

Identifier: CC-13030-13322

Scope and Contents

The square-shaped perforation on the card signifies the window element of the title and the shirt button sewn on the card, the wind..mill of the title which is printed as a label on the box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967