Screenprint on paper
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<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>
Sailing Barge Redwing
Purchased 1982
abstraction
animals: birds
bird - non-specific
boat, barge
boat, sailing
emotions, concepts and ideas
figure
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
man-made
natural phenomena
reflection
society
symmetry
transport: water
visual illusion
paper print screenprint
Sailing Barge Redwing
image: 328 × 305 mm
Purchased 1982
<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-sailing-barge-redwing-p07645" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07645</span></a> <b>Sailing Barge Red Wing</b> 1975
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<br/>Screenprint 12 7/8 × 12 (328 × 305), printed at Girdwood and published by the Wild Hawthorn Press in an edition of 300
<br/>Inscribed ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay’ and ‘129’ on flyleaf of folder
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>Made in collaboration with Ian Gardner, this work is one of Finlay's characteristic images of visual coincidence. The image of a sailing barge and its reflection printed in red make a bird shape on the green ground. The Wild Hawthorn Press is Finlay's own publishing press based at his home, Little Sparta, Stonypath, Lanark (reference this and the other <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> described here). It is Finlay's habit to work with other artists and printers, using them to visualise his idea and his visual concept by <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> or typography and then having the result printed to his own specifications. In this case the image was drawn by Gardner.
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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 <span>P07645</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-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
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction animals: birds bird - non-specific boat, barge boat, sailing emotions, concepts and ideas figure formal qualities from recognisable sources man-made natural phenomena reflection society symmetry transport: water visual illusion