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Charles Baker Finch Jr. (April 22, 1953 – August 24, 2022) was an American art critic who wrote for Artnet and Coagula.

Early life

Finch was born in Manhattan on April 22, 1953.[1] His father was a business executive and his mother was a buyer and homemaker.[1] He attended Phillips Academy, received a bachelor's degree in political science from Yale University in 1974, and enrolled at Union Theological Seminary, but did not graduate.[2]

Career

In the 1980s, Finch hosted a radio program called Artbreaking on WBAI and was a one-time culture columnist for the Paris Review online.[3] He also operated a short lived art gallery and in the East Village which he named Real Art.[4]

In 1992, Finch began writing for Coagula Art Journal, and he became known for his often vitriolic and controversial reviews.[5] He then wrote for Artnet from 1996 to 2012.[6] While his defenders praised him as passionate, his writing was also criticized as overly gossipy or cruel.[1]

Personal life and death

Finch was married twice, first to Mary Truitt, the daughter of sculptor Anne Truitt, and then to Marion Callis; both marriages ended in divorce, with his first marriage dissolving in 1981.[1] With Truitt, he had a son, novelist Charles Finch.[1][7]

On August 24, 2022, Finch, according to his son, either jumped or fell to his death from the window of his East Village apartment in Manhattan.[8][4] He had been ill with cancer for about a decade, and a neighbor speculated that he may have been also distressed about his finances, as he lived in his apartment under rent control, and the building had recently been sold.[1][4]

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