Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City.
18 Facts About Edward Warburg
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Edward Warburg taught Modern Art at Bryn Mawr College and he was vice director for public affairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Edward Warburg was a co-founder of the American Ballet and the School of American Ballet.
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Edward Warburg collected many paintings and sculptures, and donated the bulk of them to museums, especially the Museum of Modern Art.
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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 on the Upper East Side of New York City.
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Edward Warburg's paternal uncle, Aby Warburg, was a German art historian.
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Edward Warburg was a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal.
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Edward Warburg taught Modern Art at Bryn Mawr College, a women's college in Pennsylvania.
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Edward Warburg served as vice director for public affairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from 1971 to 1974.
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Edward Warburg is credited with bringing George Balanchine to the United States.
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Edward Warburg joined the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in 1932 serving until 1958.
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Edward Warburg served on the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1988 until his death in 1992.
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Edward Warburg collected sculptures by Ernst Barlach, Gaston Lachaise, Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Milne Calder.
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Edward Warburg donated many of his paintings and sculptures to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Edward Warburg served as the Chair of the Art division of the UJA-Federation of New York the 1930s.
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Edward Warburg made charitable contributions to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Habima Theatre in Israel as early as the 1930s.
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In 1939, Edward Warburg was married to Mary Whelan Currier, known as Mary Edward Warburg.
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Edward Warburg died of heart failure in September 1992 at the Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut.