Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg (June 5, 1908 – September 1992) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City.
[1][3] The student organization exhibited the works of the likes of[clarification needed] Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe.
[5] With his Harvard friend Lincoln Kirstein, Vladmir Dimitriew, and Russian choreographer George Balanchine, Warburg was a co-founder of the School of American Ballet in 1934.
[3] He also patronised the first Stravinsky Festival at the Metropolitan Opera House, "commissioning the score for Jeu de Cartes.
[1] Over the years, Warburg collected many paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper, but also by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró.
[1] He also collected sculptures by Ernst Barlach, Gaston Lachaise, Constantin Brâncuși and Alexander Milne Calder.
[4] He made charitable contributions to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Habima Theatre in Israel as early as the 1930s.