Ann Ashmead
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Ann Wheeler Harnwell Ashmead is an American female archaeologist (born Princeton, New Jersey, October 7, 1929) who has co-authored books [1] with the archaeologist Etruscologist Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr. [2][3] about the Greek Vase Painting collections of Bryn Mawr College (1971) and the Rhode Island School of Design (1976), and has written the catalogue for the Antiquities Collection of Haverford College (1999).[4][5][6][7] as well as many articles on Greek Vases.
Education and Early Career
During World War II Ashmead moved West with her family to La Jolla, California, while her father Gaylord P. Harnwell Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania supported the U.S. War efforts in directing the U. S. Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory at the Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego; while living there she attended The Bishop's School (La Jolla), after the war, returning to the East, she graduated from Lower Merion High School. She received her education at Bryn Mawr College, BA (1951) magna cum laude, MA, PhD (1959) where she studied with Rhys Carpenter and wrote her thesis was on the Onesimos (vase painter). At Bryn Mawr College classmates and colleagues include Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway and Machteld Mellink. Awarded an Ella Riegel Fellowship, Ashmead worked with Lucy Talcott in 1956-1957 at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on the ancient agora excavations in Athens publishing on fragments by the Kleophrades Painter under the Directorship of Homer Thompson along with his wife archaeologist Dorothy Burr Thompson. She taught at Bryn Mawr College and is a Research Associate with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology having written and compiled its Corpus vasorum antiquorum with the late Kyle Phillips.[1]
Circle of Archaeologists and Classicists
Other colleagues and circle of archaeologists and classicists include Richmond Lattimore, Richard Green, Ingrid Edlund Berry, Theresa Howard Carter, Jess Jeanny Canby, and Dyfri Williams.
Expertise
Ann Ashmead is a classical Greek vase painting expert, the leading authority on depictions of cats, particularly the Cheetah, on 5th Century Red-Figured Greek Vases.[8] Ashmead has also introduced technical sections in her catalogues, including references to kiln stacking and under-painting, before it became a common practice in writing on Greek Vases.
Selected works
- Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. [United States of America]. The Ella Riegel Memorial Museum, Bryn Mawr College.(1971) by Ann Harnwell Ashmead and Kyle Meredith Phillips.
- Classical Vases : Excluding Attic Black-Figure, Attic Red-Figure and Attic White Ground, Catalogue of the Classical Collection, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, (1976) by Ann Harnwell Ashmead and Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr., dedicated to Richmond Lattimore and Richard Stillwell.
- Haverford College Collection of Classical Antiquities,(1999) by Ann Harnwell Ashmead.
Family Background
She is the great-great-granddaughter of Nathaniel Wheeler one of the American inventors of the sewing machine and a descendant of Jonathan Edwards (theologian) President of Princeton and cousin to [Marion Edwards Park] President of Bryn Mawr College who also received all three degrees at the College and worked in the Agora. Ashmead was the first woman in her immediate family of notable American educators including college/university Presidents to receive a PhD. For most of Ashmead's career she was married to the Haverford College professor and writer John Ashmead.
References
- ^ a b Richard Daniel De Puma; Jocelyn Penny Small (1994). Murlo and the Etruscans: Art and Society in Ancient Etruria. Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp. xxvii–xxviii. ISBN 978-0-299-13910-0.
- ^ Ashmead, Ann Harnwell and Kyle Meredith Phillips Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Ella Riegel Memorial Museum, Bryn Mawr College, Attic Red-Figured Vases 1971 ISBN 0-691-03535-0
- ^ Ashmead, A.H. and K.M. Phillips, Jr. Classical Vases: Excluding Attic Black-Figure, Attic Red-Figure and Attic White Ground, Catalogue of the Classical Collection, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, 1976 dedicated to Richmond Lattimore and Richard Stillwell, Library of Congress No 76-45537
- ^ Ashmead, Ann Harnwell, Haverford College Collection of Classical Antiquities, 1999, published by The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-924171-69-3|.
- ^ The Allen Collection by Eils Lotozo, Haverford Magazine, Fall 2014, p. 53 https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/Communications/HAVERFORD-Fall-2014.pdf
- ^ The Allen Collection by Eils Lotozo, Haverford Magazine, Fall 2014, http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=237173&ver=html5#{"issue_id":237173,"page":53}
- ^ Haverford College Alumni Bulletion, Summer 2003,pg. 11
- ^ Greek Cats: Exotic Pets Kept by Rich Youths in Fifth Century B.C. Athens as Protrayed on Greek Vases, published in Expedition, Spring 1978, http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/20-3/Ashmead.pdf
Categories
Category:American archaeologists Category:People from Princeton, New Jersey Category:People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Category:1929 births Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni Category:Women archaeologists Category:American writers Category:Women writers Category:Living people Category:American classical scholars Category:Classical scholars of Bryn Mawr College Category:Classical archaeologists