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Image Not Available for Artists' Gardens: two contemporary Scottish gardens of ideas
Artists' Gardens: two contemporary Scottish gardens of ideas
Image Not Available for Artists' Gardens: two contemporary Scottish gardens of ideas

Artists' Gardens: two contemporary Scottish gardens of ideas

Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Daten.d.
Object NameExhibition Catalogue
Mediumpaper, ink
ClassificationsMemorabilia
Dimensions29.5 x 21 x 0.1cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017360.26
About MeCatalogue created to accompany the exhibition "Artists' Gardens." It is not dated, but gives a brief introduction of the exhibition, which focussed on Ian Hamilton Finlay's "Little Sparta" and Charles Jencks' "Garden of Cosmic Speculation". The first pages give a biography of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robin Gillanders, who photographed the works, and Charles Jencks. While the following pages list the works to be found in these gardens numerically.

This object is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend.
"Thermopylae" - Clipper Ship
Aberdeen White Star Line (George Thompson & Co)
1868
ASTEROPE
Alexander HALL & Co.
1859
Damn Jennifer Jenkins
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1987
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1872
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
June 1872
Unsigned
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1995
Aberdeen White Star Line (George Thompson & Co)
August 1862