David Hare was born in 1917 in New York City. He
started as a color photographer in the late 1930s in Connecticut where he met
such artists as Alexander Calder, Arshile Gorky, and Yves Tanguy. He opened a
private studio in NYC in1940. Becoming closely acquainted with (through his
cousin Kay Sage) and inspired by many of the Surrealist refugees, in 1942, he
helped found and edit (until 1944), along with Breton, Ernst and Duchamp, VVV,
a Surrealist magazine. He also took up sculpturing. In the 1950s and 1960s Hare
also painted and during the next decade taught at the Philadelphia College of
Art, the University of Oregon, and the Tamarind Institute at the University of
New Mexico. He died in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1992.
