AVENUE STUDIOS, FULHAM ROAD*. 1989.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
13.4 x 9.2cm, 4pp red outer folder with a drawing by Kathleen Lindsley. Internally a 13.4 x 9.2cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:

Avenue Studios, Fulham Road*

Rose
Pettigrew

Pettigrew
Rose

Rose Pettigrew was the most significant of Whistler’s models but later is recorded as falling in love with Philip Wilson Steer (apparently unrequited). Steer was one of the artists who lived at the Avenue Studios which gives this poem it’s name.
By reersing the model’s name in the second part of the poem, Finlay is comparing her to an English rose.

This is one of a series of works which the Wild hawthorn Press denoted as “Poems in folders”. VG+.