The deep-red brown
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Associatedwith
Gary Hincks
(born 1949)
Date1995
Mediumprinted ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions7.2 x 8cm folded
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017315
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.The deep red-brown
Of rain-wet sailcloath*
*A likely fragment of Archilochos
suggested by a sentence in Basil
Greenhill' s Sailing for a Living.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Gary Hinkcs
Wild Hawthorn Press
http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1995.html
