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

Biography edit

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 edit

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 edit

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.

References edit

^ Gaster, Adrian (10 November 1977). The International Authors and Writers Who's who. International Biographical Centre. ISBN 9780900332456 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b "Dore Ashton,Cooper Union". Archived from the original on 2013-06-07. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
^ "NY School Review".
^ ^a ^b "Dictionary of Art Historians".
^ "Interview with Ashton".
^ "Dore Ashton Papers and Ashton New York Times".
^ "Art forum Ashton and Rose".
^ "Ashton on Rothko". PBS.
^ Ashton, Dore (4 July 2013). David Rankin: The New York Years. Macmillan Art Publishing. ISBN 978-1921394584.
^ "Dore Ashton, Yale".
^ "Dore Ashton (1928–2017)". Art Forum. Artforum International Magazine. 2 February 2017. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
^ "Dore Ashton Guggenheim Fellow". Archived from the original on 2013-07-01.
^ "Noguchi East and West".