[2] Harari was born Richard (Dick) Falk Goldman, in Rochester, New York.

[4][5] Some of his works of this period record his reaction as a Jew to the rise of Fascism in Europe; an example is The Dictators (1938, oil and collage on canvas; now in the Jewish Museum, New York).

[citation needed] In the 1940s he produced artwork for the covers of magazines, including Fortune.

He was elected into the National Academy of Design in 1990 as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1994.

[citation needed] In 1997 a traveling retrospective of his work was mounted at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey.