A Proposal for a Distant Spot
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Associatedwith
Gary Hincks
(born 1949)
Date1994
Mediumprinted ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions21.8 x 12.2cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017223
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.A Proposal for a Distant Spot
Homer, Odyssey, trans. Pope, Bk. XI; Lang,
The Wanderings of Ulysses, in Tales of Troy and Greece
Ian Hamilton Finlay and Gary Hincks for Bernhard and Marie Starkmann
Wild Hawthorn Press
Little Sparta
http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/proposals.html
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1999
