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Archives related to: Ames, Winslow
| title | Winslow Ames papers, 1787-1989 (bulk 1960-1979). | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence; research material; writings; diaries; family papers; and printed material. 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. 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. 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. 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. UNMICROFILMED: Papers, 1787-1989, mainly documenting Ames' writing and research projects, as well as family papers and professional correspondence, and Ames' personal library. 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 (5 ft.) consist of Ames' addresses and lectures, articles, reviews, books, his autobiography (unpublished), and fiction; 2 ft. relates to his never published book, American Taste. Included also are 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. Bio / His Notes: Museum director, art and architecture historian, collector, connoisseur of drawings; b. 1907; d. 1990. |
| extent | 929 items (on 5 microfilm reels) Unmicrofilmed: 11 linear ft. reels NAM, 1428-1429, 3134, and 3768 |
| formats | Microfilm Correspondence Research Files Writings Printed Materials |
| access | Microfilmed portion must be consulted on microfilm. Use of unmicrofilmed portion requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | 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. Location of Original: Reels NAM, 1428-1429: Originals returned to Winslow Ames after microfilming. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:57 |
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| title | William Mills Ivins papers, 1878-1964. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence, writings, notes, and photographs; and Ivins family papers. Professional and personal correspondence with art historians, art dealers, museum curators and directors, print and book collectors, and artists, including: Winslow Ames, Walter Arensberg, John Taylor Arms, Bernard Berenson, George Boas, Bryson Burroughs, FitzRoy Carrington, Century Association, Sydney Cockerell, Alfred E. Cohn, W.G. Constable, Campbell Dodgson, Felix Frankfurter, Max J. Friedlander, Belle da Costa Greene, Grolier Club, Charles Downing Lay, Pierpont Morgan Library, Bruce Rodgers, Rudolph Ruzicka, Paul J. Sachs, Lee Simonson, George Sarton, Theodore Sizer, Herman A. Webster, Edgar Wind, and Carl Winter. Correspondence concerns: history of printmaking and book illustration, book design, book and print collectors and collecting, museum administration, exhibitions, mathematics, history of science and technology, perspective, and aesthetics. Also included are notes, drafts and completed manuscripts of Ivins' published and unpublished writings and lectures, with photographs of art for illustrating the texts; autobiographical notes; and annotatated copies of many of Ivins' articles and books. Ivins family papers, including Ivins genealogies; correspondence of: Margaret Ivins Holmes, Barbara Ivins, Emma Yard Ivins (Mrs. William M., Sr.), Florence Wyman Ivins (Mrs. William M., Jr.), and William M. Ivins, Sr. Papers of illustrator Florence Wyman Ivins contain illustrated letters, prints, drawings, and a sketchbook. Correspondence of Emma Yard Ivins includes discussion of woman's suffrage movement and amateur art photography at the turn of the century, and photographs of the Ivins children, taken by Emma Yard Ivins. Family photographs consist of family and individual portraits, interior and exterior views of homes, and friends and events. Included is a platinum print of Ivins taken by the noted photographer Gertrude Kasebier. Other photographs include those taken by Ivins, ca. 1930-1940, of European and American Colonial architecture; and photographs used as illustrations for Ivins' writings and other miscellaneous photogrpahs. Bio / His Notes: Museum curator, director; New York, N.Y. Lawyer, 1907-1916; Curator of Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916-1946; Honorary Curator of Prints, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1938- ; Assistant Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1933-1938; Acting Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938-1940. |
| extent | 20.6 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Writings Notes Photographs Ephemera |
| access | Unmicrofilmed: use requires an appointment. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | Online and in repository, electronic finding aid available at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/ivinwill.htm |
| acquisition information | Donated 1977-1983 by Barbara Ivins, daughter of William Ivins, Jr. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:29:56 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Winslow Ames, 1987 April 29-June 2 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Winslow Ames conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art. 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. Bio / His Notes: Museum director, art historian, collector, conoisseur of drawings and authority on Victorian art, born 1907. |
| extent | 3 sound cassettes. |
| formats | Sound Recording |
| access | Untranscribed; use requires an appointment. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_212300 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-winslow-ames-12047 |
| acquisition information | 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. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:21 |
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| title | Artist file: Ames, Winslow; miscellaneous uncataloged material. | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | Pamphlet file The folder may include announcements, clippings, press releases, brochures, reviews, invitations, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral material. Location MoMA Queens Artist Files Call Number AMES, WINSLOW |
| extent | 1 folder |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991009780939707141 |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:50 |
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