Oak/Bark/Boat
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1998
Mediumprinted ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions10 x 14.1cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017213
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.oak/bark/boat
'The boys cut their boats from the oak bark and floated them, supplied with thwarts and rudder, in the Metten brook. Those play-voyages knew nothing yet of journeys upon which all shores are left behind.'
M. Heidegger, The Country Lane (Der Feldweg), 1953
Ian Hamilton Finlay. Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1998.html
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