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0000432
Author/Editor: FINN David.
Publisher: Abrams
Place Published: New York
Year: 1985
Date & Collation: 135pp.Illus.
Description: Small introduction to museum-going built from experience of producing Henry Moore at the British Museum (See 0001771), with illustrations largely chosen from my own photographic files". Includes four colour photographs of works by Moore and several brief textual mentions of the artist the longest describing the Upright Motives and their pedestal at the Kröller-Müller State Museum Otterlo."
0003476
Author/Editor: FINN David.
Publisher: Across the Board
Place Published: New York
Year: 1976
Date & Collation: (Dec) 30-36(8 illus).
Description: Henry Moore's works in corporate environments throughout the world, and David Finn's observations on photographing them for Henry Moore: sculpture and environment (See 0003019). Outlines Moore's working methods.
0001283
Author/Editor: FINN David.
Publisher: Art World
Place Published: New York
Year: 1983
Date & Collation: (June) 7(9)..(2 illus).
Description: Outlines history of exhibition (See 0001077), from aborted plan for 1978 exhibition in Central Park, through Gould Inc. involvement to Lieberman's plans for current exhibition in the Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan. Describes scope of exhibition and continuing creativity of Moore through the years in different media as variations on his favourite themes. Scale of the sculptures is seen as in keeping with contemporary trends, and there is a note on Storm King Art Center exhibition (See 0001074).
0014640
Author/Editor: FINN David.
Publisher: Finn, David
Place Published: New York
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: 112pp(110 illus).
Description: Spiral bound set of photographs mounted on card and inscribed To Henry Moore in appreciation of a monumental work of sculpture in which one discovers endless variations of archetypal forms. David Finn. November 10 1967."
For book version see 0004652."
0000172
Author/Editor: FINN David.
Publisher: Reader's Digest
Place Published: New York
Year: 1988
Date & Collation: (Feb) 161-166(5 illus).
Description: Finn recalls his purchase of a Moore sculpture, its photography, and his support by Moore. Works by the sculptor are in public sites throughout the world. Outlines Moore's life and career and recalls his friendship with the artist and his wife, Irina. Notes Moore's modesty and creativity.
Reader's Digest is published in a dozen different language editions. Some other versions of this article: Unforgettable Henry Moore (Readers Digest. South Africa. April 1988); Inesquecíval Henry Moore (Reader's Digest. Lisbon. Dec 1988); De onvergetelijke Henry Moore (Het Beste. Amsterdam. Sept 1988); Henry Moore (Det Bästa. Stockholm. Oct 1988); Unohtumaton Henry Moore (Valitut Palat. Helsinki. July 1988).
0015468
Author/Editor: FINN David.
Publisher: Black Swan Books
Place Published: Redding Ridge, Ct.
Year: 1993
Date & Collation: .110pp(18 illus).Foreword by Duncan ROBINSON.
Description: Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art (See 0015469). The foreword notes Finn's contacts with Henry Moore since Laura and David Finn bought a bronze maquette in 1958 and visited the sculptor in Much Hadham. David Finn has published more than 50 books of photographs of sculpture, heads Ruder-Finn public relations firm in New York and works as a painter.
David Finn's text is packed with anecdotal accounts of the friendship between himself, Laura Finn, Irina and Henry Moore and of his sponsorship of Moore's art over 35 years. Finn describes his purchase of the maquette in 1958 and the first meeting with Moore, and subsequent visits on frequent trips to the London office of Ruder-Finn. Finn purchased further works from Moore, and from other sculptors. As The Eye Moves was David Finn's first book of Henry Moore sculptures (See 0004652) and subsequently David Finn travelled the world to photograph Moore's other works. He describes his approach to photographing the works, and some of the difficulties involved. Contacts are mentioned with Nobutaka Shikanai, William Hewitt, J. Irwin Miller and others. David Finn comments on the aesthetics of Henry Moore's works on public sites, and describes tape recordings of Moore prepared for Sculpture and Environment (I still have the recordings...") and meeting Kenneth Clark who wrote the introduction and collaborated with Finn on the books which Moore enjoyed seeing. Reprints Frank Stanton text on commissioning of Lincoln Center Reclining Figure 1963-1965 bronze. Describes exhibitions visited Henry Moore Sculpture Reserve Brabender book (See 0000657) and the murder of Herbert Finn David's brother. Describes work on Henry Moore at the British Museum (See 0001771) and Moore's own photographs of his work. Also describes other commissions films William Ylvisaker William Lieberman sponsorships Pritzker Prize. Includes a chapter on Ablah the New York City exhibition and eventual sale half to the Hakone Open-Air Museum and half to the Hall Family Foundations for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The closing chapter is of Moore in old age and of the photographs for In Irina's Garden (See 0000078) which included an edited version of Irina's tape recorded text. Westminster Abbey Memorial (See 0012397)."