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American art historian
Dore Ashton (New York Times)
Dore Ashton
(May 21, 1928 ? January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on
modern
and
contemporary art
.
Biography
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Ashton was born in
Newark, New Jersey
, on May 21, 1928.
[1]
[2]
She was the author or editor of more than thirty books on art, including
Noguchi
East and West
,
About Rothko
,
American Art Since 1945
,
The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning
[3]
and
Picasso
On Art
.
[4]
Ashton also contributed to many publications, including
Art Digest
. and worked as an
art critic
at
The New York Times
.
[5]
[6]
Ashton was one of the New York art critics who championed the
New York School
, whose members also included
Harold Rosenberg
and
Barbara Rose
.
[7]
Ashton's 1983 work on
Mark Rothko
,
About Rothko
, remains a source of much discussion about the artist.
[8]
Ashton's last book,
David Rankin: The New York Years
, on artist
David Rankin
was published in 2013.
[9]
Ashton was a professor of
art history
at the
Cooper Union
in
New York City
and a senior critic in painting and printmaking at
Yale
.
[2]
[10]
Ashton received an M.A. from
Harvard University
.
Ashton died on January 30, 2017, at the age of 88 in the
Bronx
,
New York City
,
New York
.
[11]
Awards and honors
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Ashton received numerous awards, including
Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowships in 1963 and 1969,
[12]
the Frank J. Mather Award for art criticism from the
College Art Association
in 1963 and a
Ford Foundation
Award in 1965.
[4]
Bibliography
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- The Unknown Shore: A View of Contemporary Art.
Little, Brown, 1962.
- A Reading of Modern Art
. Case Western Reserve University Press, 1970.
- The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning.
University of California Press, 1973.
- Rosa Bonheur: A Life and a Legend.
The Viking Press, 1981.
- Abstract Expressionist Painting in America.
Harvard University Press, 1983.
- Out of the Whirlwind: Three Decades of Arts Commentary.
UMI Research Press, 1987.
- Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views.
Da Capo Press, 1988.
- A Critical Study of Philip Guston.
University of California Press, 1990.
- A Fable of Modern Art.
University of California Press, 1991.
- Noguchi East and West.
University of California Press, 1993.
[13]
- About Rothko.
Da Capo Press, 1996.
- The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art.
Kodansha USA Press, 1997.
- A Joseph Cornell Album.
Da Capo Press, 2002.
- David Rankin: The New York Years.
Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013.
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