N.E. Thing Company (Corporate Name)

Its Look at the N. E. Thing Company, 1969.

NLC 4/6/81 (AACR 2: N.E. Thing Company; name changed 1967 from N.E. Baxter Thing Company)

Union list of artist names, via WWW, Dec. 9, 2012 (N. E. Thing Co. (Canadian conceptual artists, active 1966-1978); variant: NETCO; member was: Baxter, Iain; member was: Baxter, Ingrid)

Iain Baxter& : works 1958-2011, c2011: p. 5 (Iain Baxter& was born Iain Joseph Wilson Baxter in 1936. In 2005 he legally changed his name to Iain Baxter& (pronounced Baxterand); in 1966 he established IT, an art-making entity, with John Friel and Ingrid Baxter. The group disbanded later that year, and the N.E. Baxter Thing Co. was founded with Iain Baxter serving as president. The company was renamed N.E. Thing Co. in 1967 and was officially incorporated in British Columbia in 1969 as N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., at which time Iain and Ingrid became co-presidents; the company disbanded in 1978 when Iain and Ingrid ended their relationship)

Wikipedia, Dec. 9, 2012 (N.E. Thing Co. was a Canadian art collective producing work from 1967-1978. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, N.E. Thing Co. was run by co-presidents Iain and Ingrid Baxter. Seminal figures in the emergence of conceptual art movement in Canada during the late sixties, N.E. Thing Co. used corporate strategies to generate and frame its artistic practice)