Winslow Ames


Winslow Ames was an American art historian,author and museum director.

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 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.
He built the Winslow Ames House, now at Connecticut College, in 1933.
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.
His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.

Family

He married Anna Gerhard; they had five daughters.

Works