Background
Allen Wardwell was born on January 18, 1935, in New York City. He was the son of Edward Rogers and Lelia (Morgan) Wardwell.
282 Farmers Row, Groton, MA 01450, United States
Wardwell was educated at Groton School.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
Wardwell attended Yale University.
New York University, New York City, New York, United States
Wardwell attended New York University.
(This is the official catalogue from the exhibition of ind...)
This is the official catalogue from the exhibition of indigenous Polynesia sculpture that was displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago from November 17 to December 31, 1967 and then at The Museum of Primitive Art in New York from February 14 to May 14, 1968.
https://www.amazon.com/sculpture-Polynesia-Allen-Wardwell/dp/B0006BS0JG/?tag=2022091-20
1967
(This study places Northwest Coast shamanism in a world-wi...)
This study places Northwest Coast shamanism in a world-wide context and demonstrates the ways its practices and beliefs are similar to those found elsewhere.
https://www.amazon.com/Tangible-Visions-Northwest-Indian-Shamanism/dp/1580932355/?tag=2022091-20
1996
Allen Wardwell was born on January 18, 1935, in New York City. He was the son of Edward Rogers and Lelia (Morgan) Wardwell.
Wardwell was educated at Groton, then entering Yale University (class of 1957). In 1960, he received a master’s degree in art history from New York University, where he studied with Robert Goldwater.
After graduating, Wardwell became the head of the Primitive Art Department at The Art Institute of Chicago (1960-1973) and also served as acting curator of its Decorative Arts Department from 1964 to 1970.
Wardwell was the director of the Asia Society Gallery in New York from 1974 to 1984, and then assumed the directorship of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum from 1986 to 1990.
Wardell also became an authority on traditional indigenous art, serving as a consultant to numerous museums and galleries. Among these were Christie’s, New York, where he was a senior consultant in American Indian Art and Tribal Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he acted as curatorial consultant for African and Oceanic Art.
Wardwell was the editor of the catalog and consultant for the Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker exhibition (1998-2000) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Allen Wardell also served as consultant and author of the catalog for the 1999 Three African Traditions: The Art of the Dogon, Fang and Songye exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. In addition, he was a visiting professor at Princeton University, where he taught art history courses.
(This is the official catalogue from the exhibition of ind...)
1967(This study places Northwest Coast shamanism in a world-wi...)
1996Allen Wardwell was a member of the College Art Association and American Museum Association.
On June 29, 1957, Wardwell married Sarah Williams Tilghman. They had three children, William Thomas, Lelia Morgan and Alexander Tilghman.