Anne Hendricks Bass

Anne Hyatt Hendricks Bass (October 19, 1941 – April 1, 2020) was an American investor, documentary filmmaker, and art collector. She was the former wife of billionaire oilman Sid Bass. She directed the 2010 documentary film Dancing Across Borders. She was a patron of the arts in New York City and Fort Worth, Texas.

Early life Anne Hendricks was born on October 19, 1941, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the daughter of a "golf-champion mother" who was a graduate of Vassar College, and of a father, John Wesley Hendricks, who was a "successful Indianapolis surgeon" and urologist. She has younger sisters and a brother. The documentary shows how Bass sponsored a teenager from Cambodia to attend the School of American Ballet and become a professional ballet dancer for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. She donated US$300,000 on her own, complemented by a US$250,000 donation from the Sid Richardson Foundation. From 1980 to 2005, she served on the board of trustees of the New York City Ballet. She also supported the School of American Ballet. She was the owner of The Drawing Lesson by Picasso.

Personal life Bass met her husband, Sid Bass, billionaire heir to a Texas oil fortune, at a birthday party when Anne was visiting her cousins in Fort Worth; she was nine years old. When they divorced in 1988, She also owned a 1,000-acre estate in South Kent, Connecticut, with her boyfriend, the painter Julian Lethbridge.

Bass was described as "relentlessly private" by Texas Monthly.