Ann Wheeler Ashmead (née Harnwell; born 7 October 7, 1929) is an American archaeologist who has co-authored comprehensive catalogues[1] with archaeologist and Etruscologist Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr.[2] about the Greek Vase Painting collections of Bryn Mawr College (1971) and the Rhode Island School of Design (1976). She has also written the main published catalogue for the Antiquities Collection of Haverford College (1999).[3][4][5] and many articles on Greek Vases.
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.[6]
She is the great-great-granddaughter of Nathaniel Wheeler, one of the American inventors of the sewing machine and a descendant of theologian Jonathan Edwards, President of Princeton, and cousin to Marion Edwards Park, President of Bryn Mawr College who 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. They wed on October 15, 1949. They had five children: John Ashmead, Graham Gaylord Ashmead, Gaylord Harnwell Ashmead, Louisa Harral Ashmead and Theodora Wheeler Ashmead.[7][8] They divorced in 1976.[9]
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.
“Fragments by the Kleophrades Painter from the Athenian Agora,” Hesperia 35 (1966), pp. 20–36, pls. 7-12.
“An Unpublished Cup by Makron in Philadelphia,” American Journal of Archaeology 70 (1966) pp. 66–68 in collaboration with Kyle Meredith Phillips.
“A Chong Byong at Bryn Mawr College and its twin in Honolulu,” Archives of Asian Art XX (1966–67), pp 80–81.
Contributor to The Frederick M. Watkins College, The Fogg Art Museum, January 31, 1973 to March 31, 1974, pp. 45–52 in collaboration with Kyle Meredith Phillips.
“Greek Cats: Exotic Pets Kept by Rich Youths in Fifth Century B.C. Athens as Portrayed on Greek Vases,” Expedition vol. 20, no. 3, Spring 1978, pp. 38–47.
“Three Goddesses and a Falcon,” Studies in Classical Art and Archaeology: A Tribute to Peter Heinrich von Blanckenhagen, Locust Valley, New York, 1979 (Edited by G. Kopcke and M. Moore) 45-52, with Kyle Meredith Phillips.
“A Lekythos by the Pan Painter at Haverford College: Bread and Soup for Dinner?,” Eumousia: Ceramic and Iconographic Studies in Honor of Alexander Cambitoglou Mediterranean Archaeology Mediterranean Archaeology Suppl. I Edited by Jean-Paul Descoeudres (Sydney, 1990), pp. 95–103.
“A Monstrously Good Idea,” Review of Adrienne Mayor article, Paleocryptozoology, Vol. 9, (1991).
“The Tame Etruscan Cat: Classical Conformist or Etruscan Original,” Murlo and the Etruscans: Art and Society in Ancient Etruria Edited by Richard De Puma and Jocelyn Penny Small (Madison, Wisconsin, 1994).
^Ashmead, Ann Harnwell; Phillips, Kyle Meredith (1971). The Ella Riegel Memorial Museum, Bryn Mawr College. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. [United States of America]. Vol. 13. ISBN0-691-03535-0.
^Ashmead, Ann Harnwell, Haverford College Collection of Classical Antiquities, 1999, published by The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN0-924171-69-3
