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David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor. Life Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts 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 was a recipient of the Logan Medal of the Arts for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. During his life, he had over 400 exhibitions and his work is included in some 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. In 2007, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College. 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. He died of leukemia at his home there on April 9, 2013. He was 82. In 2021, Hayes' work and grounds were the subject of an hour-long television broadcast shown on some 200 PBS stations nationwide produced by Legacy List with Matt Paxton. Work in public collections Source: David Hayes Art Foundation archives United States Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, Michigan Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fleming Museum, University of Vermont; Burlington, Vermont First National Bank of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois Columbus Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana Smithsonian American Art Museum; Washington, D.C. George Washington University; Washington, D.C. Wichita State University; Wichita, Kansas Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, Ohio Hunter Museum of American Art; Chattanooga, Tennessee Wilbraham & Monson Academy; Wilbraham, Massachusetts Westmoreland Museum of American Art; Greensburg, Pennsylvania Philbrook Museum of Art; Tulsa, Oklahoma Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan James A. Michener Art Museum; Doylestown, Pennsylvania Hartwood Acres; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky Dubuque Museum of Art; Dubuque, Iowa Muscatine Art Center; Muscatine, Iowa Connecticut Albertus Magnus College; New Haven, Connecticut Fairfield University Art Museum; Fairfield, Connecticut Hartford Public Library; Hartford, Connecticut Hartford Art School; West Hartford, Connecticut Housatonic Museum of Art; Bridgeport, Connecticut Manchester Community College; Manchester, Connecticut New Britain Museum of American Art; New Britain, Connecticut University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut University of Connecticut Health Center; Farmington, Connecticut University of Hartford; West Hartford, Connecticut University of New Haven; West Haven, Connecticut Wadsworth Atheneum; Hartford, Connecticut Westminster School; Simsbury, Connecticut William Benton Museum of Art; Storrs, Connecticut Florida Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida Dade County Art Collection; Miami, Florida Frost Art Museum; Miami, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center; Belleair, Florida Lowe Art Museum; Coral Gables, Florida Von Liebig Art Center; Naples, Florida City of Fort Pierce; Fort Pierce, Florida Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota, Florida Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida Massachusetts Addison Gallery of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts Boston Public Library; Boston, Massachusetts Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial; Brockton, Massachusetts DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; Lincoln, Massachusetts Fitchburg Art Museum; Fitchburg, Massachusetts Gund Hall, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts; Springfield, Massachusetts Williams College Museum of Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts New Hampshire Currier Museum of Art; Manchester, New Hampshire Dartmouth College; Hanover, New Hampshire New York Elmira College; Elmira, New York Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College; Clinton, New York Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, New York Harry Guggenheim Collection, Nassau County Museum of Art; Sands Point, New York National Trust for Historic Preservation, Nelson Rockefeller Collection; Tarrytown, New York Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University; Hamilton, New York University Art Museum, State University of New York; Albany, New York Yager Museum of Art & Culture, Oneonta, New York New York City Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn, New York Museum of Modern Art; New York City Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York City Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Europe De Porceleyne Fles; Delft, Holland, Netherlands Struktuur 68NV; The Hague, Netherlands Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Paris, France Solo exhibitions Source: David Hayes Art Foundation archives 2008 David Hayes: 60 sculptures in White Plains, New York. 2007 Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida Sculpture in Downtown Syracuse; Syracuse, New York The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art; Laurel, Mississippi Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, Ohio – Small Sculptures, Drawings and Outdoor Sculpture 2005 Erie Art Museum; Erie, Pennsylvania – Art Around Erie 1959 Lyman Allen Museum; New London, Connecticut Museum of Modern Art; New York – New Talent Series 1958 Wesleyan University; Middletown, Connecticut References External links Official website "David Vincent Hayes (1931 – )", Askart "Hayes, David, 1931– , sculptor". SIRIS. Retrieved August 14, 2011. [1], Museum of Modern Art archives: David V. Hayes, American, 1931–2013. [2], Connecticut Sculptor David Hayes Transformed Steel into Art, Diane Orson interview on WNPR. [3], Legacy List with Matt Paxton: "You Gotta Have Art.". Discover the David Hayes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Hayes books.