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The son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt, Warner worked for a time at the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], as an assistant to [[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô]]. The museum then sent him to Japan in [[1907]], where he studied for a time at the [[Tokyo School of Fine Arts]], and began collecting Japanese art objects. Among his travels, he journeyed to Okinawa in November [[1909]], where he bought a number of Okinawan folk art objects, with the intention of selling them either to Harvard's Peabody Museum, or to [[Edward Sylvester Morse]], who might in turn donate or sell them to the [[Peabody-Essex Museum]] in Salem, Massachusetts. In the end, neither Harvard nor Morse were able (or willing) to purchase the 134 Okinawan objects Warner had collected, but they made their way to the Peabody-Essex anyway, after being bought by [[Charles Weld]], who in turn donated them to the Salem museum. Warner gave his daughter ten works of Okinawan textiles which he did not sell to Weld; she later donated them to Harvard's Sackler Museum. During his time in Japan, he also met [[Yanagi Soetsu|Yanagi Sôetsu]], who he later invited to become an art instructor at Harvard.

The son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt, Warner worked for a time at the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], as an assistant to [[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô]]. The museum then sent him to Japan in [[1907]], where he studied for a time at the [[Tokyo School of Fine Arts]], and began collecting Japanese art objects. Among his travels, he journeyed to Okinawa in November [[1909]], where he bought a number of Okinawan folk art objects, with the intention of selling them either to Harvard's Peabody Museum, or to [[Edward Sylvester Morse]], who might in turn donate or sell them to the [[Peabody-Essex Museum]] in Salem, Massachusetts. In the end, neither Harvard nor Morse were able (or willing) to purchase the 134 Okinawan objects Warner had collected, but they made their way to the Peabody-Essex anyway, after being bought by [[Charles Weld]], who in turn donated them to the Salem museum. Warner gave his daughter ten works of Okinawan textiles which he did not sell to Weld; she later donated them to Harvard's Sackler Museum. During his time in Japan, he also met [[Yanagi Soetsu|Yanagi Sôetsu]], who he later invited to become an art instructor at Harvard.

In the 1920s, he is said to have carved twenty-six ancient murals from the walls of the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, in China, and to have donated them to the Harvard Art Museums.<ref>Holland Cotter, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/arts/design/06cott.html Buddha's Caves]," New York Times, 6 July 2008.</ref> From April until September 1946, he served as an advisor to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program ("Monuments Men") division in Japan.<ref name=archives>Rihoko Ueno, "[http://blog.aaa.si.edu/2012/10/monuments-men-in-japan-discoveries-in-the-george-leslie-stout-papers.html Monuments Men in Japan: Discoveries in the George Leslie Stout papers]," Archives of American Art Blog, 29 Oct 2012.</ref>

In the 1920s, he is said to have carved twenty-six ancient murals from the walls of the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, in China, and to have donated them to the Harvard Art Museums.<ref>Holland Cotter, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/arts/design/06cott.html Buddha's Caves]," New York Times, 6 July 2008.</ref> From April until September 1946, he served as an advisor to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program ("Monuments Men") division in Japan.<ref name=archives>Rihoko Ueno, "[http://blog.aaa.si.edu/2012/10/monuments-men-in-japan-discoveries-in-the-george-leslie-stout-papers.html Monuments Men in Japan: Discoveries in the George Leslie Stout papers]," Archives of American Art Blog, 29 Oct 2012.</ref> Sometime shortly afterwards, in his capacity as curator at the Harvard Museums, he was asked by a Commander Carl W. Sternfelt to help identify some objects Sternfelt had acquired in Okinawa. One turned out to be one of the only surviving copies of the ''[[Omoro soshi|Omoro sôshi]]'', a collection of ancient poems and myths; Warner convinced Sternfelt of the importance of this and a number of other items, which he then relinquished to the museum. The ''Omoro sôshi'' was returned to Okinawa in 1953, but some believe that other precious Okinawan artifacts, including perhaps even a [[Ryukyu investiture crown]], may still be in the possession of Sternfelt, the Harvard Museums, or elsewhere in New England.<ref>William Honan, “[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/13/us/hunt-for-royal-treasure-leads-okinawan-to-a-house-in-massachusetts.html Hunt for Royal Treasure Leads Okinawan to a House in Massachusetts],” New York Times, 13 July 1997.</ref>

Warner later wrote a number of pieces on Japanese art history and aesthetics, including at least one work on sculpture from the time of [[Empress Suiko]] (r. 593-628). The Shôwa Emperor awarded Warner the [[Order of the Sacred Treasure]], Second Class for his work in spreading appreciation of Japanese art.

Warner later wrote a number of pieces on Japanese art history and aesthetics, including at least one work on sculpture from the time of [[Empress Suiko]] (r. 593-628). The Shôwa Emperor awarded Warner the [[Order of the Sacred Treasure]], Second Class for his work in spreading appreciation of Japanese art.