Four Shades for the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri

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Four Shades for the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri

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

ArtistDesigned by Graham Jones (born 1956)

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

PublisherPublished by Wild Hawthorn Press (founded 1961)

Date1992

Object NameBook

Mediumcard, paper, ink

ClassificationsPrints

Dimensions10.8 x 7.8 x 0.7cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG017608

About MeHardback book co-designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Grahame Jones. Published by the Wild Hawthorn Press. Pages feature watercolour sketches of the shades along with accompanying quotes. The "shades" were ultimately created in a 1994 installation by planting elm, sycamore, pine and basswood trees in particular formations at the Laumeier Sculpture Park.

This 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.