Winslow Ames, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Winslow Ames

American art historian

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1907

Place of Birth: Los Lagos Region, Chile

Date of Death: 03-Oct-1990

Profession: historian, art historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Winslow Ames (1907–1990) was an American art historian.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.
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.