Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982
14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows trees and a river with rain falling. Finlay's one word poem for this image and the main title of Drip-Dry is May. A very British obssesion with the weather. VG+.
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Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982
14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows mountains and a forest and moors. Finlay's one word poem for this image of moorland is marquetry and the look of the landscape does appear to be made up of veneers. VG+.
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Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982
14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows geese flying over a river estuary. The geese however are notes which part with one half ascending, the other descending. Finlay's one word poem for this image is Deep-V-Hull-Geese which creates a visual correspondence with a ship easily pushing waves aside because of its deep V hull. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1982
61.0 x 30.5cm, brown and black on white offset lithograph. A month by month textual proposal for twelve embroidery "samplers" - each here a description of a tank in camouflage (relevant to the date) and a note of its divisional symbol - which is the relevant astrological sign for the date. A reminder of death lurking amongst the beauty of nature (hence a momento mori). VG+.
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Kassel,: Dokumenta., n.d. (1982?) 8.5 x 15.5cm, 1pp b/w postcard with only the words "Kassel Dokumenta" on the front. Beuys has signed the card Joseph Beuys in black ink, we assume during the 7000 Eichen installations. VG+. ...
Kassel: FIU, 1982
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a reproduced drawing by Beuys on the front which the artist has signed in green ink over the image, verso FIU details and a stamped number "24" which might be an edition number but is not clear. Certainly a scarce card. VG+.
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Koln: Edition Hundertmark, 1982
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard issued after the title edition of signed thread bobbins (only 33 were made and issued with the Beuys book "1a gebratene Fischgrate", a fishbone and scissors . VG+.
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Kassel: Die Grunen, 1982
14.5 x 10.3cm, 1pp black and green on cream paper. A leaflet issued to raise funds for the Green Political party where purchasers were given it signed by Beuys in red felt tipped ink. VG+.
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Koln: Edition Hundertmark , n.d. (1982).
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Artist's postcard with a reproduced painting by Blume on the front. This image was also used in a poster by the artists. A dual performance/discussion emphasising the new emerging Green politics. VG+.
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Tokyo: Galerie Watari, 1982 10.5 x q5cm, 2pp promotional card displaying a portrait of Beuys in colour by Alex Kayser. The photograph was issued as an edition of 25 copies by the gallery. VG+. ...
Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982
14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows a ticket in close-up. Finlay's one word poem for this image is "Osiris" with beneath it the word "osiers'. The similarity in the words appeals to the poet and the Egyptian god Osiris was the god of agriculture and by extension fertile growth. Osiers is a type of willow that grows in the wet. VG+.
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Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982
14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows a country landscape at night. Finlay's one word poem for this image is "Curfew" with beneath it the word "curlew'. The similarity in the words appeals to the poet as well as the link between hearing the sound of a curlew (a wading bird) and nightfall about to come down. VG+.
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