Woodcut on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Two Trees [collaboration with Richard Healy]
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ian-hamilton-finlay-1093" aria-label="More by Ian Hamilton Finlay" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ian Hamilton Finlay</a>
Arbor Felice
Purchased 1983
abstraction
from recognisable sources
gestural
inscriptions
instructions
Latin text
non-representational
organic
symbols and personifications
text
title of work
tree
paper print woodcut
‘Arbor Felice...’
image: 92 × 116 mm
Purchased 1983
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-arbor-felice-p07923" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07923</span></a> [from] <b>Two Trees</b> 1982 [<span>P07923</span>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-the-birch-tree-p07924" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07924</span></a>; complete]
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<br/>Two woodcuts 3 5/8×4 5/8 (92 × 116) and 4 5/8 × 5 7/16 (116 × 138) respectively, printed by Richard Healy, published by the Wild Hawthorn Press in editions of 300
<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>Each of this pair of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/woodcut" title="Glossary definition for 'Woodcut'"><span>woodcuts</span></a> is marked out with a flap at the right side on which are printed instructions for folding and glueing the sheet into a rectangular column. They are printed in green and each has lettering down one face of what would be the column if so fixed. The idea is related to Finlay's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/installation-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Installation'"><span>installation</span></a> at the Kroller-Muller Museum, near Arnhem, where he put stone column bases on actual trees. Finlay believes that this - or something like it - may have been done by the Romans.
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<br/>This and the following entries [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/phillips-canto-ii-no-title-p07625" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07625</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/chia-about-the-unseizable-p07634" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07634</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-sailing-barge-redwing-p07645" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07645</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-homage-to-agam-p07647" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07647</span></a>] have all been approved by the artist.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction from recognisable sources gestural inscriptions instructions Latin text non-representational organic symbols and personifications text title of work tree