Screenprint on ceramic tile
Tate Collection
Works with images
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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>
Midway Through a Dark Wood
Purchased 1981
abstraction
Dante, ‘Divine Comedy: Inferno’
emotions, concepts and ideas
from recognisable sources
history
inscriptions
landscape
landscape
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
man-made
Midway, Battle, 3-6 Jun 1942
military: World War II
non-representational
pun
quotation
ship, warship
society
symbols and personifications
text
title of work
transport: water
universal concepts
wooded
sculpture screenprint ceramic tile
Midway (‘Through a Dark Wood’)
unconfirmed: 153 × 153 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07465</b> [from] MIDWAY 1975 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-midway-through-a-dark-wood-p07465" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07465</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-uss-enterprise-a-celebration-of-earth-air-fire-water-p07468" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07468</span></a>;complete]
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<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Four ceramic tiles with screenprinting, published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, Each 6×6 (15.3×15.3)
<br/>Purchased from Coracle Press (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>[no further details]
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-23T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction Dante, ‘Divine Comedy: Inferno’ emotions, concepts and ideas from recognisable sources history inscriptions landscape landscape literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man-made Midway, Battle, 3-6 Jun 1942 military: World War II non-representational pun quotation ship, warship society symbols and personifications text title of work transport: water universal concepts wooded