Background
David Hare was born on March 10, 1917 in New York, United States. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, was an art collector and supporter of the Armory Show of 1913, and his uncle, Philip Goodwin, was an architect.
Bard College
David Hare was born on March 10, 1917 in New York, United States. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, was an art collector and supporter of the Armory Show of 1913, and his uncle, Philip Goodwin, was an architect.
In 1936, David entered Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he studied biology and chemistry until 1937.
In 1969, he received an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
During the late 1930's, David Hare started to experiment with color photography. At that time, using his knowledge in chemistry, Hare invented an automatist technique, called "heatage". In 1940, he opened a commercial photography studio in New York and the same year, he held his solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. Since 1942, Hare started to create sculptures. The same year, together with André Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst, Hare founded the surrealist magazine "VVV", which he edited until 1944.
In 1948, David collaborated with William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko on the creation of The Subjects of the Artist School in New York. During that time, he befriended Jean-Paul Sartre. Also, in 1951 and 1957, Hare took part in the Sao Paulo Bienal. In 1958, he was working on the creation of a sculpture for the Uris building, which is located at 750 Third Avenue in New York.
During the 1960's and 1970's, David worked as a teacher at different educational institutions, including the Philadelphia College of Art, the University of Oregon in Eugene and others. At that time, he also started to work on his Cronus series of sculptures, paintings and drawings, which became the subject of a solo show at Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1977. The following year, in 1978, the artist exhibited his works at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.
Hare believed, that the sensations of the viewer are vitally important to works of art.
David was a member of the early New York School — an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers and musicians active in the 1950's and 1960's in New York.
In 1944, Hare married the former wife of André Breton, an artist Jacqueline Lambda.