[1][2][3] He painted portraits of several notable public figures, including Cy Twombly, Booth Tarkington, Sally Rand, and Alexander Woollcott.
[6] It has been suggested that the surrealist motifs in Hare's painting helped him to express himself as a gay man at a time when LGBTQ identities were marginalized.
[6][7] Hare was a member of the Art Students League, where he studied under Robert Henri, George Bellows, and William Zorach.
[3][1] He later exhibited work at several distinguished galleries in New York (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art); Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania; Florida; and elsewhere.
[1][2][8] In 2000, Yale University's Jonathan Edwards College included work by Hare in an exhibition titled Private Realisms: American Paintings 1934-1949.