Large black-and-white photographic portraits of Natalie Hays Hammond (1904-1985), Hélène Sardeau, and Catharine Wharton Morris Wright (1899-1988), all images produced by Peter A. Juley & Son of New York, each mounted on album pages, each measuring approximately 7 x 9 1/2 in. on 11 x 14 in. mounts. (3)
Hays Hammond collaborated with Martha Graham and Alice Laughlin to produce "Six Miracle Plays" at the Guild Theater in 1933. Working as a costume and set designer in New York, she also wrote Anthology of Pattern in 1949, and New Adventures in Needlepoint Design in 1973. One may visit her Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, chartered in 1957 in North Salem, New York.
Sardeau was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild. Her work includes The Slave, at the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia, Mother and Child, at the Whitney, and the bronze, Kneeling Woman, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work focused on compassion and violence. In this portrait, she poses with her infant son, and husband George Biddle.
Wright was an accomplished painter and writer with interests in philanthropy and the conservation of nature. She studied art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women from 1917 to 1919.
