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Armand Hammer was an American businessman and art collector who had close ties to the Soviet Union. He inherited his family's drug company and expanded it into Occidental Petroleum, while also supporting communism and cultivating a wide network of friends and associates.
Dec 10, 1990 · Armand Hammer was an American oil tycoon, entrepreneur, and art collector who traded with the Soviet Union and founded Occidental Petroleum. He also amassed a large collection of artworks, including Romanov treasures, and established a museum in Los Angeles.
Dec 12, 1990 · Armand Hammer, the chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation who long sought peace between the United States and the Soviet Union and financed research for a cancer cure, died at his home...
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Explore the art collection of Armand Hammer, the founder of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. See works by van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Rembrandt, and more.
May 18, 2018 · Armand Hammer was a controversial industrialist, art collector, and philanthropist who rescued Occidental Petroleum from bankruptcy and built a fertilizer empire with Soviet Russia. He had a long and complex relationship with the USSR, meeting with Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev, and exporting grain, art, and sulfur.
Nov 29, 1981 · Bob Hope introduced Armand Hammer, now 83, as the ''epitome of success'' of American capitalism. He lauded him as ''an industrialist, an art collector, a diplomat and a philanthropist,''...
Dec 11, 1990 · Armand Hammer, the financial entrepreneur whose extraordinary career spanned seven decades and half a dozen different businesses and whose avocation as a collector of art added to an already...
