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Found Poem: The Mastless Barges

ArtistDesigned/Sent by Ian Hamilton Finlay (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)

RecipientReceived by Joyce Laing (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1939 - 2022)

PrinterPrinted by Wild Hawthorn Press (founded 1961)

Artist Gary Hincks (born 1949)

Date1995

Object NameBooklet

Mediumcard, ink

ClassificationsPrints

DimensionsPaper Size: 9.2 x 9.3cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG017553

About MeBooklet designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Gary Hincks, printed by the Wild Hawthorn Press on 4 pages. It begins:

Found Poem: The Mastless Barges

As they slip up the Torridge to Bideford on the calm of a summer's evening, their two or three men seem to walk on the half mile wide stretch of water and there are only the little islands of hatchways and the tall thin stove-pipe exhaust shooting out pulses of blue smoke

to show where there is a barge.

This booklet 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.