Scribner Ames

Scribner Ames (1908–1993) was an American artiste known for her paintings and sculpture. Her paintings included portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and abstractions. Her portrait sitters were often kids or Famous men and women in the performing arts. Born and raised in Chicago, she worked first in Manhattan and cutting edge returned to her birth city. She with made repeated trips to Europe and, once, to the West Indies. Although she admired the enactment of Cézanne, Braque, and Marsden Hartley, her painting was, as one critic said, "not derivative". Critics noted her full of life handling of color and one said she was "particularly noted for her take action in creating goings-on through atmosphere by the use of color perspective." In her carved wood sculpture, critics generally noted the have emotional impact of her teacher, José de Creeft.

An objector for highly developed education, Ames taught art for many years in a private literary and in her own studio. She was an author, although her publications were few. She wrote and illustrated a cassette called Marsden Hartley in Maine and she wrote journal articles and letters to the editor on art education, abstraction in art, and the pernicious tendency of collectors and personal ad galleries to make public bad art.