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Doves Dhows
Doves Dhows
Doves Dhows

Doves Dhows

Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1998
Mediumprinted ink on white card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions10.5 x 7.6cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017394
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.

see also: http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1998.html
More About Me
An example of Finlay’s “concrete poetry” where the layout and typography of the words contribute to the overall effect.
Exhibitions
Capital, n. A Republican Crown
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1980s
Sound Shanty
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1995
Heartsease K15
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1998
A Valentine: 14 February
Ian Hamilton Finlay
2000
The perfect sentence
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1980s
Some
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1970
Two Adaptions
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Closed
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1983
Finis Amoris - A Valentine
Ian Hamilton Finlay
c. 2000
Folds
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1998
Elegy
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1998
Spring Poem - Plover
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Spring Poem - Plough
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Purse Seine
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1995