Edward Warburg

Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg (June 5, 1908 – September 1992) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City. He taught Modern Art at Bryn Mawr College and he was vice director for public affairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a co-founder of the American Ballet and the School of American Ballet. He collected many paintings and sculptures, and donated the bulk of them to museums, especially the Museum of Modern Art.

Early life Edward Warburg was born on June 5, 1908, in White Plains, New York, and grew up at the Felix M. Warburg House, a mansion on Fifth Avenue (now home to the Jewish Museum) on the Upper East Side of New York City. He was a son of Frieda (née Schiff) Warburg and Felix Moritz Warburg, a partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co.

His maternal grandfather was Jacob Schiff.

Warburg was educated at the Middlesex School, a boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts. They resided at 730 Park Avenue. He retired in Wilton, Connecticut.

Warburg died of heart failure in September 1992 at the Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut.