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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
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
Snow Bark
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1979