David Hayes

David Hayes was an American sculptor based in Coventry Connecticut. He studied sculpture under the great David Smith at Indiana University Bloomington, from where he graduated in 1955.

He received both a post-doctoral Fulbright Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. as well as the Logan Medal of the Arts for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Hayes resided in Coventry, Connecticut, where he had 54 acres of land to exhibit his works on the grounds of the David Hayes Sculpture Fields, an open air art museum open to the public.

Hayes had over 400 exhibitions during his career and his work is included in some 100 institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum. 

Starfish - David Hayes

Starfish - David Hayes
Ange - David Hayes

Ange - David Hayes

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