David Hayes Sculpture Fields -
Coventry, CT, US / CT
Location Description
David Hayes was born in Hartford, Connecticut and received an A.B. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1953 and a M.F.A. degree from Indiana University in 1955 where he studied with David Smith. He received a post-doctoral Fulbright award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a recipient of the Logan Prize for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He had some 400 exhibitions and is included in over 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 2007 was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College. He worked in Coventry, Connecticut and Paris, France over a period of six decades. He passed away in April 2013 at the age of 82 at his home in Coventry. His completed works are on display in an old orchard, by the pond, in a large hayfield, and behind his former home. They are in or near informal gardens of herbs, wildflowers and ferns, roses, annuals and vegetables. Private viewings by appointment; please call 607 353-9000 or send an email to the artist's son at [email protected].
Location Category
- AGRICULTURE - [general]
- AGRICULTURE - Fields, Pastures, Meadows
- LANDSCAPES - [general]
- LANDSCAPES - Countrysides
- MUSEUMS / EXHIBITS - Art / Galleries
