Winslow Ames

Edward Winslow Ames Jr. (July 3, 1907 – October 3, 1990) was an American art historian, author, and museum director.

Early life Ames was born in Maullín, Chile, where his father was a diplomat and later worked for Companier de Maderes del Ato Parana, a lumber company. His parents were Katherine Millicent (née Johnson) and Edward "Ted" Winslow Ames. However, Ames recalled, "The Ames family was not rich. My mother was." The Ames used these houses as rental properties, although they lived in the Moto Home for a short time. Selected works include:

Books The Mastery of Drawing, translated and expanded from Joseph Meder's Die Handzeichnung, Abaris Books,1978. "Bouchardon and Company." Master Drawings, (1975) vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 379–447. "London 1862: Crystal Palace as Academy," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (October 1971) Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 247. "The Transformation of Château-Sur-Mer." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (1970) vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 291–306. "A Bust of a Woman by Bellange." Master Drawings (1966) vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 434–99. "New York Brownstone through German Eyes, 1851." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1966) vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 63–64. "The Vermont State House." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1964) vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 193–99. "The 'Villa Dal Timpano Arcuato' by Francesco Guardi." Master Drawings (1963) vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 37–81. "Review of Inside Victorian Walls, by E. A. Entwisle, et al. Victorian Studies (1961), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 151–62. "Spectatorship of F. Ambrose Clark and a Well-Made Book." Connoisseur (December 1959) vol. 144, pp. 200–205. "Two Drawings by Palma Giovine: With French Tr." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1955) March, pp. 171–95. "Rembrandt Composition Remodeled." Art Quarterly (1954) vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 60–62. "Some Physical Types Favored by Western Artists; with French Translation." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, (1954), September, pp. 91–139. "Drawings by Contemporaries and by Old Masters." Magazine of Art (March 1953) vol. 46, pp. 123–30. "Some Woodcuts by Hendrick Goltzius and Their Program; with French Tr." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, (1948) June, pp. 425–65. "Drawing by Hans Baldung Grün at the Pierpont Morgan Library." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1944) June, pp. 371–75. "Sketches for an Assumption of the Virgin by Fra Bartolommeo." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, (1944) April, pp. 215–20. "Drawings in the Fogg", Magazine of Art, American Federation of Arts, (January 1941) vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 34–37, 47–48. "William Blake as Artist." Magazine of Art. (February 1939) vol. 32, pp. 68–73. "A Drawing by the Monogrammist C. B." Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum (1938) vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 36–40. "Chiaroscuro Woodcuts." Parnassus (1937) vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 5–8. "Portrait of American Industry; City Interior by Charles Sheeler." Worcester Art Museum Annual (January 1937) vol. 2, pp. 96–98 He said, "We are called not to intensify differences, not to quash objections, not to make artificial, neat barriers, but to acknowledge and reconcile differences and find rewards in them."

He was a member of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America. He was treasurer of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship from 1948 to 1968. He was also a member of the North Kingston School Building and Planning Committee from 1966 to 1967, and the Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission in 1968.

In 1990, he died after a heart attack at Wakefield Hospital in Rhode Island at the age of 83.