Oral history interview with Winslow Ames
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 18 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ames, Winslow
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Lyman Allyn Museum
label: Names
content: Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969
label: Names
content: Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-
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content: Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965
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content: Warburg, Edward M. M.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Rhode Island -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Rhode Island -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Museum directors -- Connecticut -- Interviews
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content: Museum directors -- Missouri -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Ames, Winslow
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Winslow Ames (1907-1990) was a museum director, art historian, collector, conoisseur of drawings, and authority on Victorian art.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Connecticut -- New London
label: Function
content: Art museums -- Missouri -- Springfield
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 77 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 April 29-June 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ames87
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Winslow Ames conducted 1987 April 29-June 2, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Ames speaks of his childhood in New York, his family's early New England and New York antecedents, his education at Columbia College, and studying fine arts at Harvard under Paul Sachs and Edward Waldo Forbes. He reminisces about his friendship with Edward M.M. Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein and their involvement in his purchase of Gaston Lachaise's "Standing Woman"; his work as the first director of the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut; service as a conscientious objector with the Civilian Public Service Corps during World War II; and assisting in the resettlement of European refugees with the American Friends Service Committee. He discusses directing a museum in Springfield, Missouri, researching and writing his, "Prince Albert and Public Taste," and teaching connoisseurship and museum practices at the University of Rhode Island and Brown University.