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b oats
b oats

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Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1998
Mediumprinted ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions10.5 x 15.1cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017158
About MeThis work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made.

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The orcadian is a crofter with a boat while the Shetlander
is a fisherman with a croft. (Traditional).

http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1998.html
More About Me
The poem printed here sounds like an idyllic and honest life whichever way you look at it, a life of working the brown earth and the blue seas.
Exhibitions
Closed
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1983
Capital, n. A Republican Crown
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1980s
Elegy
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1998
Spring Poem - Plover
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Spring Poem - Plough
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Purse Seine
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1995
creels and creels
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1994
The Hanky Sails
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Carvel / Clinker Built
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1994
Trim Here
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1973
Citron Bleu
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1994
Lemon
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Spray
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1998