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David Hare Art

American, 1917-1992

David Hare, a surrealist and Abstract Expressionist sculptor and photographer, was born in New York City on March 10, 1917. From 1936–37, he studied biology and chemistry at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Hare had no formal training in art but began experimenting. He took up photography in the 1930s and by the end of the decade was working in color. The Walker Galleries in New York exhibited his photographs in 1939. From 1941–44, Hare founded and edited the surrealist magazine VVV with André Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. Peggy Guggenheim presented solo shows of Hare's work in her The Art of This Century Gallery from 1944–47. In 1948, he was a founding member, together with William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko, of The Subjects of the Artist school in New York and Hare, became friendly with Jean-Paul Sarte. Hare died on December 21, 1992, in Jackson.

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Artist: David Hare
"Cronus Asleep in the Cave" Mixed Media Work on Paper by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Asleep in the Cave, 1971 Acrylic, ink wash, graphite, paper collage on paper on board 26 x 35 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, b...
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1970s Abstract David Hare Art

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Acrylic, Paper, Ink, Graphite

"Dancer" Male Nude, Figurative Sculpture by Davide Hare, Mid-Century Surrealist
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Dancer, circa 1955 Bronze with integral stand 68 high x 17 wide x 13 1/2 deep inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the c...
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1950s Abstract David Hare Art

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Bronze

"Cronus View from the Cave" Abstract Mixed Media Composition by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus View from the Cave, 1971 Graphite, Ink wash, Paper Collage on Paper on Board 25 x 33 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then ...
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1970s Abstract David Hare Art

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Paper, Ink, Graphite

"Erotic #1 (Cronus Sex)" Acrylic and Paper Collage on Linen Canvas Abstract
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Erotic #1 (Cronus Sex), 1970 Acrylic and paper collage on linen 68 x 51 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, ...
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1970s Abstract David Hare Art

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Linen, Paper, Acrylic

"Cronus Descending" Acrylic on Linen Abstract Surrealist Painting by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Descending, 1971 Acrylic on linen 64 x 46 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most ...
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1970s Abstract David Hare Art

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Linen, Acrylic

"Cronus Asleep in the Cave" Acrylic Work on Board by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Asleep in the Cave, 1971 Acrylic on board 27 1/2 x 38 1/4 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and wh...
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1970s Abstract David Hare Art

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Acrylic

"Cronus Dining" Mixed Media On Paper Yellow and White Composition on Paper
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Dining, 1968 Graphite, acrylic, paper collage on board 44 x 34 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “a...
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1960s Abstract David Hare Art

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Paper, Acrylic, Graphite

"Cronus Waiting" Mixed Media on Board Black and White Composition by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Waiting, 1990 Ink and Wash on Paper on Board 34 x 25 1/4 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and wha...
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1990s Abstract David Hare Art

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Paper, Ink, Board

"Cronus Elephant" Abstract Composition Acrylic on Linen by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Elephant, 1975 Acrylic on linen 82 x 60 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afr...
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1970s Abstract David Hare Art

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Linen, Acrylic

"Cronus Asleep in the Cave" Mixed Media Work on Paper by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Asleep in the Cave, 1991 Acrylic on paper on board 26 X 34 1/4 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “a...
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1990s Abstract David Hare Art

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Paper, Acrylic, Board

"Cronus Dining (Night)" Abstract Acrylic and Ink on Board Painting by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Dining (Night), 1971 Acrylic, ink, paper collage on paper on board 39 1/2 x 29 5/8 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he ...
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1970s Abstract David Hare Art

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Ink, Acrylic, Board

"Cronus Hunting" Acrylic and Paper Collage on Linen Abstract Composition
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Hunting, 1967 Acrylic and paper collage on linen 68 x 53 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and wha...
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1960s David Hare Art

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Linen, Paper, Acrylic

"Cronus Waiting" Acrylic on Linen Abstract Surrealist Scene by David Hare
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Cronus Waiting, 1990 Acrylic on linen 72 x 42 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afra...
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1990s Abstract David Hare Art

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Linen, Acrylic

1970 Mod Surrealist Painting Collage David Hare Abstract Landscape Summer Land
By David Hare
Located in Surfside, FL
David Hare Summer Land, 1970 Acrylic or oil paint and collage on board Dimensions: 26 X 36 inches. Framed measuring 29 x 38 inches. Hand signed, dated and titled on tape to verso 'Summer Land 1970 Hare'. Provenance: Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York David Hare (1917 – 1992) was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and oil painting. The VVV Surrealism Magazine was first published and edited by Hare in 1942. Born March 10, 1917 in New York City, New York to father Meredith Hare, a lawyer and mother Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, an art collector. In the 1920s the family moved first to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in hope that the fresh air would help heal Meredith Hare's tuberculosis. His mother founded the Fountain Valley School, where David attended high school. After high school Hare married and moved to Roxbury, Connecticut where he worked as a color photographer. He attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson from 1936 to 1937, studying biology and chemistry. In the late 1930s, with no previous artistic training, he began to experiment with color photography. Using his previous education in chemistry Hare developed an automatist technique called "heatage" in which he heated the unfixed negative from an 8 by 10-inch plate, causing the image to ripple and distort. Hare's Surrealist experiments in photography were only one of his many projects. In 1938 he met Susanna Winslow Wilson and the couple soon married. Both David and Susanna pursued their interests in Surrealism and regularly attended Surrealist gatherings in New York Larre French restaurant on 56th street and at Breton's Greenwich Village apartment. In 1940 he received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest, for which he eventually produced 20 prints developed using Eastman Kodak's then-new dye transfer process (a time-consuming and complicated technique). In the same year, he also opened his own commercial photography studio in New York City and exhibited his photographs in a solo show at the Julien Levy Gallery. In the next few years, through his cousin the painter Kay Sage, he came into contact with a number of Surrealist artists who had fled their native Europe because of World War II. Hare became closely involved with the émigré Surrealist movement and collaborated closely with them on projects such as the Surrealist journal VVV, which he co founded and edited from 1941 to 1944 with André Breton, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp. With numerous illustrations by Breton, Leonora Carrington, Marc Chagall, Roberto Matta, Giorgio de Chirico, MarcelDuchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Enrico Donati, Dorothea Tanning, and others. Published in only four issues between 1942-44, VVV was an experimental New York-based magazine devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism. Edited by David Hare, the short-lived magazine featured contributions from some of the leading avant-garde artists of the period. David and Susanna divorce in 1945 and Breton’s wife Jacqueline Lamba...
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1970s Surrealist David Hare Art

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Acrylic, Board

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