Winslow Ames

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Ames as a student at Phillips Academy, 1925

Edward Winslow Ames Jr. (July 3, 1907 – 1990) was an American art historian, author and museum director.[1]

Ames was born in Maullín, Chile,[2] where his father, Edward Winslow Ames, was working as a diplomat, and was raised mostly in Staten Island, New York. His grandfather was Azel Ames, a noted physician and author.[3] He attended Phillips Andover Academy, Columbia College, and Harvard University, graduating with an MA in art history. He joined the St. Anthony Hall fraternity (AKA Delta Psi) while at Columbia and was a leading member of it throughout his life. At Harvard he studied with Paul J. Sachs and Edward W. Forbes.

He served as director of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, the Springfield, Missouri Art Museum, and the Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art in New York.[4] He built the Winslow Ames House, now at Connecticut College, in 1933.[5][6]

During the Vietnam War, Ames became a sponsor of the War Tax Resistance project, which practiced and advocated tax resistance as a form of protest against the war.[7]

He married Anna Gerhard; together, they had five daughters.

His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.[8]

Works[]

  • Prince Albert and Victorian Taste, Viking, 1967
  • Great Drawings of All Time, Shorewood Press, 1962

References[]

  1. ^ "Winslow Ames, Writer And Museum Head, 83". The New York Times. 1990-10-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ^ Kay, Ernest, ed. (1976). International Authors and Writers Who's Who (7th ed.). Cambridge, England: Melrose Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-900332-34-4. OCLC 2126989.
  3. ^ White, Almira Larkin (1909). Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1574-1909. Haverhill, Mass: Chase Brothers. pp. 71–72.
  4. ^ "Winslow Ames". The House of Steel. Connecticut College. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012.
  5. ^ https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/95000283_text
  6. ^ Reitz, Stephanie (March 12, 2016). "Connecticut College's steel house by Winslow Ames getting chance to shine again". artdaily.com. Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016.
  7. ^ "A Call to War Tax Resistance" The Cycle 14 May 1970, p. 7
  8. ^ Archives of American Art. "Summary of the Winslow Ames papers, 1787-1989, (bulk 1960-1979) - Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". si.edu.

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