Alice DeLamar

Alice DeLamar (April 23, 1895 – August 31, 1983) was an American heiress and patron of the arts who was the only child of Joseph Raphael De Lamar. She helped fund plays by Mercedes de Acosta. DeLamar also donated some of her land in Palm Beach, Florida to the Audubon Society in the 1960s.

Early life

DeLamar was born April 23, 1895, in New York City to Joseph Raphael De Lamar and Nellie Sands. She was their only child. The DeLamars had a mansion in New York City and an estate on Glen Cove on Long Island called Pennbrook Her parents divorced in 1910, and her father gained custody of her. She had a half-sister, Consuelo Hatmaker, from her mother and her second husband, James Hatmaker.

After she graduated from the Spence School, DeLamar and Evangeline Johnson, one of her schoolmates, volunteered for the Red Cross Motor Corps in Europe during World War I. thumb Worth Avenue Gallery, located at 347 Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida, was the site of an art gallery owned by DeLamar.

Business Beginning in 1936, she operated a restaurant in Weston, the Cobbs Mill Inn, In Palm Beach, Florida, she opened the Worth Avenue Gallery in 1942. It was an art gallery that promoted the works of up-and-coming artists.

Personal life

DeLamar lived at the estate named Stonebrook, located in Weston, Connecticut that she had built in the 1930s.

For six decades, DeLamar was Eva Le Gallienne's lover and financial supporter. She backed plays

While seeking treatment for liver cancer, DeLamar hit her head when she fell in the South Norwalk hospital, which led to her death. Her remains were cremated and buried in West Palm Beach. A large portion of her estate went to Harvard, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins Universities, in accordance with her father's will. including the land and house that DeLamar purchased for her.