Channing Hare
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Channing Hare | |
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| Born | 1899 |
| Died | 1976 (aged 76–77) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | Portrait of a Woman, The End of Summer, Anita, The Grey Rose |
| Style | Portraiture |
| Movement | Realism, Surrealism |
| Partner | Mountfort Coolidge |
Channing Weir Hare (1899–1976) was an American painter. He was born in New York and lived in Ogunquit, Maine and Palm Beach, Florida, where he was best known for his portraiture.[1][2][3] He painted portraits of several notable public figures, including Cy Twombly, Booth Tarkington, Sally Rand, and Alexander Woollcott.[4][5] Some of his other work was markedly influenced by the Surrealist movement.[6] It has been suggested that the surrealist motifs in Hare's painting helped him to express himself as a gay man at a time when LGBTQ identities were marginalized.[6][7]
Hare was a member of the Art Students League, where he studied under Robert Henri, George Bellows, and William Zorach.[3][1] He later exhibited work at several distinguished galleries in New York (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art); Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania; Florida; and elsewhere.[1][2][8] In 2000, Yale University's Jonathan Edwards College included work by Hare in an exhibition titled Private Realisms: American Paintings 1934-1949.[9] Works by Hare are held by the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Figge Art Museum.[10][11][12][13] Photographs of Hare are held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the RISD Museum.[14][15][16]