The smelting operation multiplied and became quite profitable for the Guggenheim. Barbara Hazel Leonard (Guggenheim) (1903 - 1995) - Genealogy Genealogy for Barbara Hazel Leonard (Guggenheim) (1903 - 1995) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. My earliest memories in the late 70’s are when I was a teenager living at my family house on Peniston St. in New Orleans. Governors and Prime ministers Other. In the scramble one of the children went over the edge.
She was known for her salons and parties that brought some of the most interesting personalities of the 20th century art and literary worlds together. At a time when women were for the most part still expected to get married and raise children, she managed to carve out a singularly interesting life for herself, that was completely on her own terms.Comments and any additional information about Hazel are most welcome.Like her sister Peggy, Hazel was also a serious collector of modern art, especially during her years in Europe.Thank you Mr Bullard for your interesting comments. In her 80s she was taking art classes in New Orleans, where teachers and fellow students alike would listen in awe to the stories she told of her friendships with her more famous contemporaries.I knew Hazel as an intermittent presence, a kind of benevolent shadow, hovering in the wings of my family life while growing up, ignorant of any of the notoriety that surrounded her.
How the children happened to fall had not been established last night by the investigation of the police although there was no doubt that the fall had been accidental.Mrs. I was surprised at this revelation especially finding myself eating dinner with the 2 Mrs. McKinley’s but in many ways it was another of many sweet funny encounters I had with Hazel. She lived in our home uptown for a number of years.Thank you for you comment! PARIS, Feb. 25 (AP)---Three American wives obtained divorces today in the French courts. As dinner was served this woman joined us and I was introduced. Joseph Huler of 65-10 Woodside Avenue, Queens, a painter, was probably the only witness.Surrounding the penthouse is a landscaped plot which contains garden furniture and a porch swing. At that time my Godfather, John Hohnsbeen, was directly involved with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during the last 10 years of Peggy’s life. Guggenheim), Peggy Vail, WI (geb. Being a teenager I found myself in a crowd of adults almost all in their late 20’s or older. Feel free to email me at I knew Hazel pretty well, I think it was back in the late 1950s and the early ’60s, in New York City. They were married in the United States on July 3, 1919. She made an ineffectual effort to save them and then was too dazed and horror stricken even to call for help. Marie Wiener Ball, known as Medea Derdzina, was freed from Theodore Ball. She and her husband were in New Orleans for a horse racing event and Mr. McKinley had a heart attack and was then in the hospital. I have a small amount of material on this period, but I would love to learn more. It was a funny introduction into Hazel’s world. She had a reputation as an eccentric, yet kindhearted member of the Bohemian circles that she frequented.From the 1920s-30s spent in Paris and London, to the 1940’s wartime Los Angeles, and throughout the remainder of her life, her many acquaintances included members of the European and American avant-garde and modernist movements. Growing up, her unconventional attitudes and lifestyle epitomized for me a kind of free spirit ideal, that I now see captured in her paintings. Despite the Mae Westian inspiration she was one of a kind–to paraphase a line from All About Eve: “There Never Was and Never Will be Another like Hazel.”Jimmy always said that Hazel had married eight times to seven husbands, having remarried one of them But I gather there were only six–and no remarriage. Thanks for following!Thank you so much Neil for your comments. Guggenheim) Benjamin Guggenheim, Florette Guggenheim (born Seligman) Benita Mayer (born Guggenheim), Margueritte "peggy" Guggenheim Terrence Waldman, Benjamin Waldman, John King- Farlow,
Waited on Roof for Cousin Mrs. Waldman, a daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who was drowned in the sinking of the Titanic, had gone to the Surrey to visit her cousin, Mrs. Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr., who occupies a penthouse bungalow.