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Dore Ashton (May 21, 1928 – January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on modern and contemporary art.

Biography

She was born in Newark, New Jersey.[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 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

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

• The Unknown Shore: A View of Contemporary Art. Little, Brown, 1962.
• A Reading of Modern Art. Case Western Reserve University Press, 1970.
• 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.
• The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning. University of California Press, 1992.
• 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.

References

External links

• Dore Ashton interview about Philip Guston on YouTube
• Interview with Dore Ashton
• Dore Ashton, Brooklyn Rail
• Ashton essay on Toledo
• Ashton essay on Guadi, Criterion
• Interview with Ashton in Barcelona on YouTube
• New York Times obituary
• Papers at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

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Dore Ashton, née le 21 mai 1928 à Newark dans le New Jersey[2] et morte le 30 janvier 2017 à New York aux États-Unis[3], est une critique d'art américaine et enseignante à l'université Yale.

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