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Tree Shells
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Tree Shells

Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Associated (Lancaster, England, 1944 - 2019)
Date1971
Mediumprinted ink on printed ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions9.8 x 7cm folded
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017272
About MeThis work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend of the donor and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made.

TREE-SHELLS
planted by Jack Lang, Yves Jouffa, Michel Blum, Francois Leotard,
Instructions: Apply ear to Tree-shell. Listen for Lakes.
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