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{{Short description|British artist (1907β1991)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Joyce Amy Finzi''' ({{nee|'''Black'''}}; 3 March 1907 β 14 June 1991), commonly known as '''Joy Finzi''', was a British artist and founder of the [[Finzi Trust]], a foundation named for her husband, composer [[Gerald Finzi]]. ==Life and career== She was born '''Joyce Amy Black''' in [[Hampstead]], London in 1907.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=sqLTGkPXMBUBhl6S2VtFcQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=20 July 2020|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> She studied music and art, and married Finzi in 1933. They had two sons, [[Christopher Finzi|Christopher]] and Nigel. Together with her husband, Finzi played an important part in founding the [[Newbury String Players]]. She devoted much time to preserving the work of composer-poet [[Ivor Gurney]], continuing her husband's work after his premature death in 1956. She sketched [[portrait]]s of contemporary musicians including [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], Sir [[Adrian Boult]], [[Howard Ferguson (composer)|Howard Ferguson]] and Sir [[Arthur Bliss]], and writers including [[Edmund Blunden]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]] and [[David Jones (poet)|David Jones]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation| last = Blevins | first = Pamela | title = Joy Finzi: A Brief Biography | url=http://www.joyfinzi.com/pages/biography.html| access-date = 20 July 2020}}.</ref> In 1969, she founded the Finzi Trust to finance the recording of the work of her late husband Gerald (who had died in 1956), and other composers, and was instrumental in the formation of ''Finzi Friends'' in 1982, a society furthering the work of the Trust. She continued to draw and sculpt, and published two volumes of [[poetry]]: ''A Point of Departure'' and ''Twelve Months of a Year''. A collection of her portrait drawings was published in 1987, with the title ''In That Place''. She died on 14 June 1991 in [[Ashmansworth]], Hampshire at the age of 84.<ref name=":0" /> ==References== {{Reflist}} == Further reading == *Finzi, Joy. ''In That Place: The Portrait Drawings of Joy Finzi'' (Libanus Press, 1987). {{ISBN|0-948021-15-2}} *Jordan, Rolf. ''The Clock of the Years: A Gerald and Joy Finzi Anthology'' (Chosen Press, 2007). {{ISBN|978-0-9556373-0-8}} *[[Diana McVeagh|McVeagh, Diana]]. ''Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music'' (Boydell, 2006). {{ISBN|1-84383-170-8}} ==External links== *[http://www.joyfinzi.com Joy Finzi] memorial website *[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Jun02/Joy_Finzi.htm Biography page] at [http://www.musicweb-international.com/ MusicWeb International] *[http://www.geraldfinzi.org/ The Finzi Trust] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070705101221/http://www.chosen-arts.org.uk/finzifriends/ Finzi Friends], archived in 2007 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Finzi, Joy}} [[Category:1907 births]] [[Category:1991 deaths]] [[Category:Artists from the London Borough of Camden]] [[Category:British portrait artists]] [[Category:People from Hampstead]] [[Category:20th-century English women artists]] [[Category:People from Ashmansworth]] [[Category:20th-century English artists]]
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