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

"[5] The family went back and forth between the United States and Latin America, but he was primarily raised in Staten Island, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts.

[2] While at Columbia, he took up rowing and joined the social and literary Fraternity of Delta Psi (St. Anthony Hall) which Ames says was crucial to stimulating his interest in the arts.

[5] With the assistance of Paul J. Sachs, Ames secured a position as founding director of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut.

[8][5] The New York Times noted, "Winslow Ames, the director, has mapped out an acquisition program that, as it develops, out to make the museum both distinctive and peculiarly valuable.

[6] After World War II, he spent a year studying Prince Albert and Victorian art in England and Germany.

[1][9][6] From 1957 to 1961, he was the first director of Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art at 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan, working with the collection before the museum opened to the public.

[5] While at the Century of Progress world exhibition in Chicago in 1933, Ames saw General House's model home and met Howard T. Fisher, its chief architect.

[5][1] In 1943, he was assigned to a Civilian Public Service Camp in Virginia that worked in timber stand improvement and soil conservation.

[5] In the 1950s, the Ames family moved to Saunderstown, Rhode Island, where they lived in a house designed by Rockwell King DuMoulin, a Delta Psi fraternity brother.

[5][1] In 1959, Ames was a guest layman, giving a sermon on the "ministry of reconciliation" at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in New York City.

[6] 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.