David Hare

About

David Hare was an American artist renowned for his contributions to Surrealism and the New York School, working primarily as a sculptor, painter, and photographer. Born in New York City, he studied biology and chemistry at Bard College before self-teaching artistic techniques, including an experimental 'heatage' process in color photography during the late 1930s. Through family connections like his cousin Kay Sage, Hare immersed himself in the émigré Surrealist community in New York during World War II, collaborating closely with André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst. He edited the Surrealist magazine VVV from 1942 to 1944 and gained prominence with his first solo exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in 1944, where he was hailed as one of the finest sculptors of his time.

Surrealism with Abstract Expressionist influences, featuring welded-metal abstract sculptures, automatist techniques, and dream-like forms exploring mythology and the human psyche