Winslow Ames papers
name: label: Creator
content: Ames, Winslow
label: Names
content: Lyman Allyn Museum (New London, Conn.)
label: Title
content: Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935. Standing woman
label: Names
content: Meder, Joseph, 1857-1934
label: Names
content: Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Topic
content: Historic preservation -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels NAM and 1428-1429 lent for microfilming 1978 by Winslow Ames; he donated the remaining microfilmed material 1977-1984. The unfilmed papers were donated in 1996 by Ames' daughter, Alison Ames.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ames, Winslow
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Museum director, art and architecture historian, collector, connoisseur of drawings; b. 1907; d. 1990.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- New York (State)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 929 Items ((on 5 microfilm reels))
label: Extent
content: 8.4 Linear Feet (Unmicrofilmed)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1787-1989
label: Date
content: bulk 1960-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ameswins
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels NAM, 1428-1429, 3134, and 3768 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels NAM, 1428-1429: Originals returned to Winslow Ames after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; research material; writings; diaries; family papers; and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL NAM: The Mastery of Drawing, an English translation revised and brought up to date by Winslow Ames, of Joseph Meder's Die Handzeichnung; ihre Technik und Entwicklung, 1923.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1428-1429: Three diaries, 1940-1942; correspondence, 1931-1978; writings; and printed material. Among the correspondents are Leonard Baskin, Kenneth Clark, Krick Hawkins, Hans Huth, William Ivins, Jr., Walt Killam, Lincoln Kirstein, Gaston Lachaise, Agnes Mongan, Nelson Rockefeller, Michael E. Sadler, Meyer Schapiro, Wolfgang Stechow, Francis Henry Taylor and William Zorach.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3134: Correspondence, 1934-1959, (16 items) regarding Gaston Lachaise's "Standing Woman" and its purchase by the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C. Included are 3 letters from Lachaise to Ames, 1934, one containing a sketch and description of the statue.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3768: Annotated photographs of a silver sugar basket designed by Arthur J. Stone. The basket was a wedding gift to Ames' grandparents, Katharine Milicent Ames and Edward Winslow Ames in 1905. The photographs were taken by Todd Studios of St. Louis, Mo., 1983-1984.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Papers, 1787-1989, mainly documenting Ames' writing and research projects, as well as family papers and professional correspondence. Correspondence relates to his work as an appraiser, his activities in the Drawing Society and the Victorian Society, and general professional activites. Among the correspondents are Lincoln Kirstein, Michael E.Sadler, Agnes Mongan, Hubert Humphrey, and Senator Claiborne Pell. Research material consists primarily of photographs of art work and decorative art and some printed material. Writings consist of Ames' addresses and lectures, articles, reviews, his autobiography (unpublished), and fiction as well as his never published book, American Taste. Also included is material relating to his books The Mastery of Drawing (1978) and Prince Albert and Victorian Taste (1968). Family papers consists mainly of correspondence, among which is a 1787 letter from a distant relative and journals, 1869-1906, kept by Elizabeth Winthrop Ames during her travels throughout the western U.S.; also found are biographical materials and papers relating to Ames' volunteer work during 1945-56 for the Quaker Transport.