Ashton, Dore, 1928-2017

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1928-05-21
Death 2017-01-30
Active 1930
Active 1996
Birth 1928-05-21
Death 1983
Active 1849
Active 2010
Active 1920
Active 1977
Active 1851
Active 1995
Gender:
Female
Americans
English, English,

Biographical notes:

Dore Ashton (May 21, 1928 – January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on modern and contemporary art. She was born in Newark, New Jersey. 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 and Picasso On Art. Ashton also contributed to many publications, including Art Digest. and worked as an art critic at The New York Times. Ashton was one of the New York art critics who championed the New York School, whose members also included Harold Rosenberg and Barbara Rose. Ashton's 1983 work on Mark Rothko, About Rothko, remains a source of much discussion about the artist. Ashton's last book, David Rankin: The New York Years, on artist David Rankin was published in 2013.

Ashton was a professor of art history at the Cooper Union in New York and a senior critic in painting and printmaking at Yale. 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.

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Subjects:

  • American literature
  • Art, Modern
  • Authors, American
  • Art criticism
  • Art critics
  • Art historians
  • Artists
  • Authors
  • Authors, Italian
  • Authors, Mexican
  • Italian literature
  • Japanese Americans
  • Mexican literature
  • Women art critics
  • World War, 1939-1945

Occupations:

  • Art critics

Places:

  • NY, US
  • NJ, US
  • United States (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)

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