Sam Haile (1909-1948)

Sam Haile (1909-1948) was an important and active member of the Surrealist movement in London during the 1930s. Having studied at the Royal College of Art from 1931-5, he joined the British Surrealist group in 1937, and also showed with the Artists International Association. From 1939-44 he lived in New York, where Haile, whose politics were left-wing and convictions pacifist, went to escape what he considered a capitalist struggle. Haile returned to Britain in 1944, but was killed in a car accident in Dartington four years later.