David Hayes (sculptor)
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David Vincent Hayes | |
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| Born | March 15, 1931 |
| Died | April 9, 2013 (aged 82) Coventry, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | University of Notre Dame, and Indiana University |
| Known for | Sculpture, Painting |
| Spouse | Julia Hayes (1934–2016)[1] |
| Awards | Logan Prize for Sculpture, National Institute of Arts and Letters, Fulbright award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Albertus Magnus College |
David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor.
Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1953, and a M.F.A. degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 1955 where he studied with David Smith.
He received a post-doctoral Fulbright Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a recipient of the Logan Medal of the Arts for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. During his life, he had over 400 exhibitions[2] and his work is included in some 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
In 2007, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College.
Hayes resided in Coventry, Connecticut, where he had 54 acres of land to exhibit his works[1] on the grounds of the David Hayes Sculpture Fields, an open air art museum open to the public.[2] He died of leukemia at his home there on April 9, 2013. He was 82.[3] [4]
In 2021, Hayes' work and grounds were the subject of an hour-long television broadcast shown on some 200 PBS stations nationwide produced by Legacy List with Matt Paxton.[5]
Work in public collections
Source: David Hayes Art Foundation archives[2]
United States
- Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, Michigan
- Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas
- University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona
- Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Fleming Museum, University of Vermont; Burlington, Vermont
- First National Bank of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
- Columbus Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio
- University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana
- Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana
- Wichita State University; Wichita, Kansas
- Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, Ohio
- Hunter Museum of American Art; Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Wilbraham & Monson Academy; Wilbraham, Massachusetts
- Westmoreland Museum of American Art; Greensburg, Pennsylvania
- Philbrook Museum of Art; Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan
- James A. Michener Art Museum; Doylestown, Pennsylvania
- Hartwood Acres; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky
- Dubuque Museum of Art; Dubuque, Iowa
- Muscatine Art Center; Muscatine, Iowa
Connecticut
- Albertus Magnus College; New Haven, Connecticut
- Fairfield University Art Museum; Fairfield, Connecticut
- Hartford Public Library; Hartford, Connecticut
- Hartford Art School; West Hartford, Connecticut
- Housatonic Museum of Art; Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Manchester Community College; Manchester, Connecticut
- New Britain Museum of American Art; New Britain, Connecticut
- University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut
- University of Connecticut Health Center; Farmington, Connecticut
- University of Hartford; West Hartford, Connecticut
- University of New Haven; West Haven, Connecticut
- Wadsworth Atheneum; Hartford, Connecticut
- Westminster School; Simsbury, Connecticut
- William Benton Museum of Art; Storrs, Connecticut
District of Columbia
- Smithsonian American Art Museum; Washington, D.C.
- George Washington University; Washington, D.C.
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden[6][7]
Florida
- Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida
- Dade County Art Collection; Miami, Florida
- Frost Art Museum; Miami, Florida
- Gulf Coast Art Center; Belleair, Florida
- Lowe Art Museum; Coral Gables, Florida
- Von Liebig Art Center; Naples, Florida
- City of Fort Pierce; Fort Pierce, Florida
- Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota, Florida
- Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida
Massachusetts
- Addison Gallery of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts
- Boston Public Library; Boston, Massachusetts
- Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial; Brockton, Massachusetts
- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; Lincoln, Massachusetts
- Fitchburg Art Museum; Fitchburg, Massachusetts
- Gund Hall, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts; Springfield, Massachusetts
- Williams College Museum of Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New York
- Elmira College; Elmira, New York
- Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College; Clinton, New York
- Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, New York
- Harry Guggenheim Collection, Nassau County Museum of Art; Sands Point, New York
- National Trust for Historic Preservation, Nelson Rockefeller Collection; Tarrytown, New York
- Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University; Hamilton, New York
- University Art Museum, State University of New York; Albany, New York
- Yager Museum of Art & Culture, Oneonta, New York
New York City
- Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn, New York
- Museum of Modern Art; New York City[8][2][9]
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York City
Europe
- De Porceleyne Fles; Delft, Holland, Netherlands
- Struktuur 68NV; The Hague, Netherlands
- Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Paris, France
