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Overview
Spencer Finch (full name William Spencer Finch) is a visual artist and Hamilton College alumnus known for conceptual and light-based works that explore perception and memory. He gained wide recognition for his installation “The River That Flows Both Ways” in the High Line park in New York City.
Relevance to Research
Finch appears twice in the 1985-86 Hamilton College catalog under his full name “William Spencer Finch”: once in connection with the Hamilton Fellow at George Watson’s College internship, and once in a general student listing, indicating he was enrolled at Hamilton during the 1985-86 academic year.
Notes
The catalog entries use his full name “William Spencer Finch”; he is known professionally as Spencer Finch. The George Watson’s College fellowship listing suggests he may have studied abroad in Scotland during this period. The mentions are brief and administrative.
Related Sources
- yhm-arc-pub-cat-1985-86_djvu.txt