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b oats
b oats
b oats

b oats

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.

b oats

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.
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