Natalie Hays Hammond

Natalie Hays Hammond
Natalie Hayes Hammond
Born	January 6, 1904 Lakewood, New Jersey
Died	June 30, 1985 North Salem, New York
Nationality	American
Occupation	Painter, miniaturist, Broadway set and costume designer, author
Parents	John Hays Hammond Natalie (Harris) Hammond

Natalie Hays Hammond (1904-1985) 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.

Author

Natalie with her father, John Hays Hammond, Sr.

• 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

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Name	Hammond, Natalie Hays
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Date of birth	January 6, 1904
Place of birth	Lakewood, New Jersey
Date of death	June 30, 1985
Place of death	North Salem, New York