With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
David Hare
Painting/Drawing, Photography, Sculpture
1917 – 1992
Surrealist artist and among the early group of Abstract Impressionists admired for his early abstract sculptures. His years living in Roxbury during the 1930s informed his aesthetic and was the beginning of relationships with important Modernist artists.
- Biography/Description of Work
Hare’s mother was Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, art collector and supporter of early Modernist artists, and his cousin was Kay Sage, Surrealist painter. It is not surprising then that he began to explore Modernist ideas in art. After studying chemistry in college, in the 1930s he began to experiment with new ways of exposing color film to create Surrealist imagery. In meeting the artistic émigré friends of his cousin who lived in Roxbury and neighboring towns, he found inspiration, and from 1941 to 1944 co-founded and edited the Surrealist journal ‘VVV’ with André Breton, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp. He also began to work in three dimensions and welded metal abstract forms, and his sculptures were exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery Art of This Century and others. He was a founding member, in 1948, with Mark Rothko, William Baziotes and Robert Motherwell of the Subjects of the Artist School (early Abstract Expressionism), and in the 1950s added painting to his output.
- Sources view
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hare_(artist), http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/hare-bio.htm, http://www.weinstein.com/hare/docs/david-hare-catalogue-weinstein-gallery-web.pdf, http://www.davidhareart.com/DH/WELCOME.html, http://www.michaelrosenfeldart.com/artists/david-hare-1917-1992 David Hare Article - New York Times - 1959-12-3, David Hare Article - New York Times - 1961-1-22, David Hare Article - New York Times - 1977-9-30, David Hare Divorce Announcement - New York Times - 1945-3-3, David Hare Obituary - New York Times - 1992-12-25
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