UUnniivveerrssiittyy ooff LLoouuiissvviillllee TThhiinnkkIIRR:: TThhee UUnniivveerrssiittyy ooff LLoouuiissvviillllee''ss IInnssttiittuuttiioonnaall RReeppoossiittoorryy Electronic Theses and Dissertations 12-2012 TThhee iimmppaacctt ooff EEddwwaarrdd PPeerrrryy WWaarrrreenn oonn tthhee ssttuuddyy aanndd ccoolllleeccttiioonnss ooff GGrreeeekk aanndd RRoommaann aannttiiqquuiittiieess iinn AAmmeerriiccaann aaccaaddeemmiiaa.. James Murley 1947- University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd RReeccoommmmeennddeedd CCiittaattiioonn Murley, James 1947-, "The impact of Edward Perry Warren on the study and collections of Greek and Roman antiquities in American academia." (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1028. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/1028 This Doctoral Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE IMPACT OF EDWARD PERRY WARREN ON THE STUDY AND COLLECTIONS OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN AMERICAN ACADEMIA By James Murley B.A., Bellarmine University, 1969 M.A., Duke University, 1971 M.A., University of Louisville, 2001 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Art History University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky December 2012 DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my spouse Marilyn Borders-Murley. With infinite patience, she gave me unqualified and loving support in this undertaking. 111 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Above all, Iwould like to thank my mentor, Dr. Stephanie Maloney, for her guidance and encouragement. I am grateful to Dr. Christopher Fulton, and Professor Peter Morrin, for serving as readers. Dr. Thomas Mackey has my gratitude for his unwavering patience and support. The instruction and inspiration of my professors at the University of Louisville have proven invaluable as have the resources and staff of the Ekstrom and Margaret M. Bridwell Art Libraries. I am also thankful for the support and patience of the administration, faculty, and students at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. The Peden Fund of the Central Kentucky Educational Foundation and the Don Payton Graduate Award in Art History from the Hite Institute of Fine Arts funded my research. IV ABSTRACT THE IMPACT OF EDWARD PERRY WARREN ON THE STUDY AND COLLECTIONS OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN AMERICAN ACADEMIA James Murley November 8,2012 This dissertation assesses the influence of Edward Perry Warren (1860- 1928) on the development of collegiate collections of Greek and Roman art and the rise of art history and archaeology in elite academic institutions in the United States. It employs archival research to explore Warren's motivations for acquiring thousands of antiquities which he sold or gave to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and six collegiate museums and study collections. Organized into six chapters, this multidisciplinary dissertation describes Warren's roles at these institutions. It highlights antiquities that have figured prominently in scholarship and that demonstrate the range and variety of his collecting tastes. In the first three chapters, the dissertation places Warren's collecting in light of its social, economic, intellectual, and cultural backdrop and considers how Warren both reflects and diverges from his family's values. It also weighs how Warren's sexuality impacted his collecting tastes and resulted in the establishment of his antiquities emporium in Lewes, England. It chronicles his partnership with John Marshall, Edward v Robinson, and John Davidson Beazley and ascertains what is known about his relationships with those who established the classical collections at Harvard, Bowdoin, the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr, the University of Chicago, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Chapters 4,5, and 6 function as a selective catalogue of Warren's antiquities, organized by medium. Chapter 4 is devoted to a discussion of how the Greek vases and other ceramic antiquities he obtained for American collections have been pivotal in developing the American scholarship on these objects. Chapter 5 considers the impact of Warren's collecting on Greek numismatics as well as on ancient gems, jewelry, ivory, and glass. Chapter 6 features bronze and stone antiquities that illustrate his connoisseurial acumen. This dissertation argues that the collecting of Edward Perry Warren is essential to understanding the rise of art history and archaeology as academic disciplines in the United States. Antiquities that he obtained for American collections continue to figure prominently in the scholarship and exhibitions focusing on Greek and Roman material culture and social history. VI TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ACKNOWEDGEMENTS iv ABSTRACT v LIST OF FIGURES vii INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1:WARREN AND THE GILDED AGE 24 CHAPTER 2: THE INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE FOR WARREN'S COLLECTING ..63 CHAPTER 3: WARREN AND AMERICAN COLLEGIATE COLLECTIONS 120 CHAPTER 4: CERAMIC ANTIQUITIES FROM WARREN IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS 202 CHAPTER 5: WARREN ANTIQUITIES IN PRECIOUS MATERIALS IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS 255 CHAPTER 6: WARREN'S BRONZE AND STONE SCULPTURES IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS 289 CONCLUSION 335 REFERENCES 341 FIGURES 399 CURRICULUM VITA 567 Vll LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE PAGE 1. Stemmed Drinking Cup 399 2. Ned Warren and John Marshall at Lewes House .400 3. Lewes House Registers 401 4. Interior of the Warren Home: 67 Mount Vernon Street.. .402 5. Lewes House: Dining Room .403 6. Edward Perry Warren 404 7. Edward Perry Warren 405 8. Terracotta Statuette of a Young Man .406 9. Statuette of Minerva 107 10. Lewes House: Front. 408 11. Lewes House: Garden Front .409 12. Lewes House: Garden Front-Detail 410 13. Lewes House: Garden with Plinth .411 14. LewesHouse-water color by Roger Fry .412 15. Lewes House: Warren's Study in "Thebes" .413 16. Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall .414 17. Edward Perry Warren, John Marshall, and unidentified man .415 18. Mercury (Hermes) 416 19. Mercury (Hermes) and Mercury (Hermes) at Lewes House .417 V111 20. Mercury (Hennes) at Lewes House .418 21. Mercury (Hennes) at Lewes House .419 22. The Cast Gallery in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston .420 23. Attic Red-figure Amphora Attributed to the Berlin Painter .421 24. Attic-Red Figure Ky1ixattributed to the Foundry Painter .422 25. Meleager 423 26. Mercury (Hennes) and Meleager .424 27. Colossal Head of a Giant or Barbarian: Present Mount .425 28. Colossal Head of a Giant or Barbarian: Earlier Mounts .426 29. Rotunda of the Walker Art Building, Bowdoin College, before 1937 .427 30. Attic Red-figure Pelike Attributed to the Dinos Painter .428 31. Antonius Pius 429 32. Relief of a Sleeping Herakles .430 33. Statuette of a Bull 431 34. Tanagra Comic Figure on a Donkey .432 35. Dwarf Carrying a Kid on His Shoulders .433 36. Terracotta Jointed Female Doll Holding Rattles .434 37. Flute 435 38. Front Wall of a Cinerary Urn .436 39. Female Statuette: Aphrodite and Lewes House Registers .437 40. Table Support Fragment (?): Dionysus/Bacchus .438 IX