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Snow Bark
Snow Bark
Snow Bark

Snow Bark

Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1979
Mediumprinted ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions5.5 x 13.5cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017186
Keywords
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.

recto:
Snow,n. atmospheric vapour frozen in crystalline from
Bark,n. formerly any small sailing ship
Bark, n. the rind or covering of the trunk and branches of a tree
Snow,n. a vessel like a brig with a trysail mast
http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1979.html
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