You can see the results of his labor in many major museums, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Museum of Modern Art and in hundreds of private collections. David Hayes was a keen observer who did his homework. In those days, he also designed jewelry for Christian Dior’s collection. ND Mag Slideshow-David Hayes Sculptures – Images by Notre Dame Photography His father also took trips to England to the studio of his friend Henry Moore. remembered when they’d go down to Calder’s castle at Saché and swim in the Loire. His mentors and friends included such sculptors as Alberto Giacometti and Sandy Calder. A post-doctoral Fulbright Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship took him to France, where he finished his unofficial apprenticeship in the little village of Antony near Paris. He received his MFA in 1955 from Indiana University, where he studied with the internationally renowned sculptor David Smith. That was when our friendship began.ĭavid received his bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame in 1953, a year before I got mine. It was immediately obvious - he was as seriously a committed artist as I was. I remember shaking his hand in O’Shaughnessy Hall, where the new Art Department was located. We met as young men making basic discoveries about art and life at Notre Dame. David Vincent Hayes, a Connecticut Yankee to the core, was a keenly focused artist with a unique vision. Walking down the rugged path, you can catch a glimpse of black steel clouds, defying gravity, dangling from sturdy branches. Red, blue and yellow interlocking angular and curvilinear forms create a border of large and colorful sculpture around a sunny 10-acre opening in the woods. A collection of tall, slender, black, geometric free-form clusters are reflected in a secluded dark pond. A sculptor up at dawn cutting sheets of raw steel with his torch, assembling fluid shapes into signature works of art. This was the engine room of his creative soul, over 57 acres where David worked his magic. My wife, Ann, selected this piece from the hundreds scattered in the fields of David Hayes’ studio and home in Coventry, Connecticut.
The rhythm of the sculpture draws you in, inviting you to walk around the piece to complete your contact with the artist’s creative statement. Each large abstract shape eases into the next, creating a dynamic unit that captures the eye. Twelve rust brown Core-ten steel elements welded together form an organic screen 12 feet high and 8 feet wide.
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