| 词条 | Nancy Lee Bass |
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| name =Nancy Lee Bass | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name =Nancy Lee Muse | birth_date =March 7, 1917 | birth_place =Fort Worth, Texas | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|2|28|1917|3|7}} | death_place =Fort Worth, Texas | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = Philanthropist | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Perry Richardson Bass | children = Sid Bass Lee Bass Ed Bass Robert Bass | parents =Ewell H. Muse Roberta Maddox Muse | relatives =Sid W. Richardson (great-uncle-in-law) Hyatt Bass (granddaughter) | box_width = }}Nancy Lee Bass (1917–2013) was an American philanthropist. She was known as the 'First Lady of Fort Worth, Texas.'[1] Early lifeNancy Lee Muse was born on March 7, 1917 in Fort Worth, Texas.[2][3] Her father was Ewell H. Muse and her mother, Roberta Maddox Muse.[2] She grew up in Fort Worth, where she learned to play the piano from a young age.[3][4] She was educated at Central High School, later known as Paschal High School, in Fort Worth.[3][4] She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1937.[2][4][5] PhilanthropyShe donated to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, all of which are based in Fort Worth.[5] She served on the Boards of Trustees of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the University of Texas at Austin and the Smithsonian Institution.[3] She also served as Vice President of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, named for her husband's uncle.[1] Moreover, the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall was named after her husband and her, after her friend, pianist Van Cliburn, suggested it.[5][1][6] Additionally, she was a member of the Junior League, the Jewel Charity Ball, and the Fort Worth Garden Club.[1] She was also a past President of The Assembly. [1] She became a member of the First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth in 1925.[7] In 1993, she donated new church bells, which were placed in the east tower.[7] With her husband, she donated US$1 million to fifty different organizations in 1991, for their fiftieth anniversary.[3][8] They also donated US$8 million to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.[5] They also donated art to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.[9] The collection includes Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer and Enclosed Field with Plowman by Vincent Van Gogh as well as Fruit Dish, Bottle, and Guitar by Pablo Picasso.[9] It also includes paintings by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall and Mark Rothko as well as sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol and Simon Segal.[9] She was the recipient of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Gloria Lupton Tennison Pioneer Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas Ex-Students Association as well as the Golden Deeds Award from the Exchange Club of Fort Worth.[1][8] Personal lifeShe married Perry Richardson Bass at the First Methodist Church of Fort Worth in 1941.[3][5][10] They had met in a dance hall in Fort Worth.[3] They had four sons:
She became a widow upon his death in 2006.[5] DeathShe died on February 28, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas.[5] She was ninety-five years old.[5] Her wake took place at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 Steve Campbell, Nancy Lee Bass was the "first lady of Fort Worth", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 1, 2013 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bass, Nancy Lee}}2. ^1 2 3 Nancy Lee Bass, 95, eulogized as philanthropic 'queen' of Fort Worth, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 16, 2013 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Alan Peppard, Obituary: Nancy Lee Bass, Fort Worth matriarch, dies at 95, The Dallas Morning News, March 1, 2013 4. ^1 2 Texas Trail of Fame: Perry and Nancy Lee Bass 5. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Nancy Lee Bass dies at 95, WFAA, March 1, 2013 6. ^Dionne Anglin, Fort Worth's Nancy Lee Bass dies, Fox 4, March 2, 2013 7. ^1 First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth Honors Nancy Lee Bass in March 7 Bell Tribute, Business Wire, March 5, 2013 8. ^1 Chris Van Horne, Fort Worth Philanthropist Nancy Lee Bass Dies at 95, NBCFW, March 1, 2013 9. ^1 2 [https://www.kimbellart.org/exhibition/collection-nancy-lee-and-perry-r-bass Kimbell Art Museum: The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass] 10. ^Nancy Lee Bass, 95, matriarch of Fort Worth’s leading philanthropists, Chicago Sun Times, March 2, 2013 9 : 1917 births|2013 deaths|People from Fort Worth, Texas|University of Texas at Austin alumni|American art collectors|Women art collectors|Philanthropists from Texas|Bass family|American United Methodists |
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