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David Hayes
Untitled 1painted steel sculpture, multi-color, 17 x 17 x 15 inches
Untitled 5painted steel sculpture, black, 17.25 x 8.5 x 10 inches
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Untitled 3painted steel sculpture, black, 21.5 x 15 x 6.5 inches
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Untitled 2painted steel sculpture, multi-color, 13.25 x 18 x 13 inches
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 has 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 has had over 300 exhibitions and is included in over 100 institutional collections including that 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 died April 9, 2013 of leukemia at the age of 82, four days after his final opening.