Natalie Hays Hammond
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Natalie Hays Hammond was the daughter and heiress of millionaire adventurer and philanthropist John Hays Hammond
and was, in her own right, a painter, Broadway set and costume designer, author, and patron of the arts.
Her former home in North Salem, New York
is now part of the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden which she founded during her lifetime. Deciding she needed a place to put the things she collected and inherited (about 100,000 antiques and a 70,000-volume library), she and her cousin and life companion Elizabeth Hammond Taylor built the museum and garden. When Natalie Hays Hammond died in 1985, she bequeathed to her cousin the right to live in the estate’s mansion for the duration of her life. Taylor chose to move and the house went unoccupied. In November 2005, the museum negotiated the rights to own it, so that now it is what Natalie Hays Hammond had originally planned – a center for the performing arts as well as the visual arts.
Her brother, John Hays Hammond, Jr.
, a famous inventor known as "The Father of Radio Control
", founded the Hammond Museum and Castle in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
John Hays Hammond
John Hays Hammond was a famous mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. Known as the man with the midas touch, he amassed a sizable fortune before the age of 40. An early advocate of deep-level mining, Hammond was given complete charge of Cecil Rhodes' mines in South Africa and made each...
and was, in her own right, a painter, Broadway set and costume designer, author, and patron of the arts.
Her former home in North Salem, New York
North Salem, New York
North Salem is a town in the northeast part of Westchester County, New York, United States. The county ranks second for wealthiest counties in New York State and the seventh wealthiest county nationally...
is now part of the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden which she founded during her lifetime. Deciding she needed a place to put the things she collected and inherited (about 100,000 antiques and a 70,000-volume library), she and her cousin and life companion Elizabeth Hammond Taylor built the museum and garden. When Natalie Hays Hammond died in 1985, she bequeathed to her cousin the right to live in the estate’s mansion for the duration of her life. Taylor chose to move and the house went unoccupied. In November 2005, the museum negotiated the rights to own it, so that now it is what Natalie Hays Hammond had originally planned – a center for the performing arts as well as the visual arts.
Her brother, John Hays Hammond, Jr.
John Hays Hammond, Jr.
John Hays Hammond, Jr. was an American inventor known as "The Father of Radio Control" and son of mining engineer John Hays Hammond, Sr..-Biography:...
, a famous inventor known as "The Father of Radio Control
Radio control
Radio control is the use of radio signals to remotely control a device. The term is used frequently to refer to the control of model vehicles from a hand-held radio transmitter...
", founded the Hammond Museum and Castle in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Author
- Elizabeth of England (1936)
- Paintings by Natalie Hays Hammond (1939)
- Restrospective exhibition of Natalie Hays Hammond (1944)
- Natalie Hays Hammond: exhibition of drawings: anthology of pattern, jewelry designs, watercolors & drawings (1948)
- Anthology of pattern (1949)
- New adventures in needlepoint design, ISBN 0671215752, (1973)
External links
- http://www.hammondmuseum.org/ The Hammond Museum
- http://www.askart.com/askart/h/natalie_hays_hammond/natalie_hays_hammond.aspx Paintings by Natalie Hammond