Winslow Ames

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

Life and career

Ames was born in Chile, where his father, Edward Winslow Ames, was working as a diplomat, but was raised mostly in Staten Island, New York. He graduated from Phillips Andover Academy and Columbia College, and from Harvard University, with an MA in art history. He joined St. Anthony Hall ( 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. [2] He built the Winslow Ames House, now at Connecticut College, in 1933.[3][4]

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.[5]

His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.[6]

Family

He married Anna Gerhard; they had five daughters.

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. http://oak.conncoll.edu/~steelhouse/ames.html
  3. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/95000283_text
  4. Ignacio Villarreal. "Connecticut College's steel house by Winslow Ames getting chance to shine again". artdaily.com.
  5. "A Call to War Tax Resistance" The Cycle 14 May 1970, p. 7
  6. 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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