Edward Warburg

Edward Warburg
Born	Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg June 5, 1908 White Plains, New York, U.S.
Died	September 1992 Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.
Cause of death	heart failure
Residence	730 Park Avenue, Park Avenue, Lenox Hill, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Wilton, Connecticut, U.S.
Education	Middlesex School
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Philanthropist
Spouse(s)	Mary Warburg
Children	David Warburg Daphne Astor
Parent(s)	Felix M. Warburg Frieda Schiff
Relatives	Jacob Schiff (maternal grandfather) James Loeb (great-uncle) Aby Warburg (paternal uncle)

Edward Warburg (1908-1992) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City. He taught Modern Art at Bryn Mawr College and he was vice director for public affairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a co-founder of the American Ballet and the School of American Ballet. He collected many paintings and sculptures, and donated the bulk of them to museums, especially the Museum of Modern Art.

Edward Warburg was born on June 5, 1908 in White Plains, New York. His father, Felix M. Warburg, was a partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. His mother, Frieda, was the daughter of Jacob Schiff. He grew up at the Felix M. Warburg House, a mansion on Fifth Avenue now home to the Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side of New York City. He was raised in the Jewish faith. His paternal uncle, Aby Warburg, was a German art historian.

Warburg was educated at the Middlesex School, a boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1930. While at Harvard, he took courses with Edward W. Forbes and Paul J. Sachs. Furthermore, Warburg co-founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art with Lincoln Kirstein and John Walker in 1928. The student organization exhibited the works of the likes of Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe.