Homage to Walter Reekie’s Ring Netters
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1996
Mediumprinted ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions10.2 x 16cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017163
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.Homage to Walter Reekie’s Ring Netters
http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1996.html
More About Me
This appears to be a development of Walter Reekie's original, simple five ring postcard design of 1972 by an artist whose work was a complex amalgam of poetry, graphic design and sculpture.
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