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Ashton, Dore, 1928-2017
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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.
Archival Resources
| Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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| creatorOf | Ashton, Dore, 1928-. Letters, 1965-1972, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
| referencedIn | James E. B. Breslin research archive on Mark Rothko, 1900-1994, 1940-1990 | Getty Research Institute | |
| creatorOf | Paul Jenkins papers | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Crow, Thomas. Seeing Rothko [sound recording] / [sponsored by the Getty Research Institute]. | Getty Research Institute | |
| referencedIn | Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Papers, 1870-1969 | Houghton Library | |
| creatorOf | Belle Krasne Ribicoff papers | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Donati, Enrico, 1909-2008. Enrico Donati, letters received and manuscripts, 1943-1963. | Getty Research Institute | |
| referencedIn | New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers, 1823-1999 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| creatorOf | Ashton, Dore, 1928-. Correspondence, 1971, from Lewis Mumford. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
| referencedIn | Daisy Aldan Papers TXRC94-A18., 1946-1966 | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
| referencedIn | Belle Krasne Ribicoff papers | Archives of American Art | |
| referencedIn | Catherine Viviano Gallery records | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Catherine Viviano Gallery records | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Ashton, Dore. PAD/D pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library | |
| creatorOf | Ashton, Dore. Ashton, Dore: Art World Personality Files. | Whitney Museum of American Art, Library | |
| creatorOf | Lily Harmon papers | Archives of American Art | |
| referencedIn | José de Rivera papers | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Yunkers, Adja, 1900-1983. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1947-1970, n.d. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
| referencedIn | James E. B. Breslin research archive on Mark Rothko, 1900-1994, 1940-1990 | Getty Research Institute | |
| creatorOf | Dore Ashton and Matti Megged collection | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Office of the Director. James Johnson Sweeney correspondence, 1961-1967. | Hirsch Library Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | |
| creatorOf | Smith, William Jay, 1918-. Papers. | Washington University in St. Louis, . | |
| referencedIn | Smith, William Jay, 1918-. Papers, 1924-1984. | Washington University in St. Louis, . | |
| referencedIn | William C. Seitz papers | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Ruth Bowman papers | Archives of American Art | |
| referencedIn | Robert Richenburg papers | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Mark Tobey papers | Archives of American Art | |
| referencedIn | Young, Tom. PAD/D pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library | |
| creatorOf | Aldan, Daisy. Papers, 1946-1966. | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
| referencedIn | Reuben Kadish papers | Archives of American Art | |
| referencedIn | Harry Levin papers | Houghton Library | |
| creatorOf | Dore Ashton papers | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Reuben Kadish papers | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Ashton, Dore. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1951-1971, n.d. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
| creatorOf | Ashton, Dore. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) | |
| creatorOf | Ashton, Dore. Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1991. | University of Pennsylvania Library | |
| referencedIn | Enrico Donati letters received and manuscripts, 1943-1963 | Getty Research Institute |
Bibliographic and Digital Archival Resources
| Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
|---|---|---|---|
| creatorOf | Oral history interview with Lee Bontecou | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Oral history interview with Juliette Hays | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Oral history interview with Joseph Liss | Archives of American Art | |
| referencedIn | Oral history interview with Lucy Lippard | Archives of American Art | |
| creatorOf | Oral history interview with Dore Ashton | Archives of American Art | |
| referencedIn | Oral history interview with Regina Vater | Archives of American Art |
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| associatedWith | Aldan, Daisy. | person |
| associatedWith | Aldan, Daisy, 1923- | person |
| associatedWith | Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. | person |
| associatedWith | Bonheur, Rosa, 1822-1899. | person |
| associatedWith | Bontecou, Lee, 1931- | person |
| associatedWith | Bowman, Ruth, 1923- | person |
| associatedWith | Breslin, James E. B., 1935-1996 | person |
| associatedWith | Calvino, Italo. | person |
| associatedWith | Catherine Viviano | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Catherine Viviano Gallery. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Cornell, Joseph. | person |
| correspondedWith | Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 | person |
| associatedWith | De Kooning, Willem, 1904- | person |
| associatedWith | de Rivera, José | person |
| associatedWith | De Rivera, José Ruiz, 1904-1985. | person |
| associatedWith | Devree, Howard, 1891-1966. | person |
| associatedWith | Donati, Enrico, 1909-2008. | person |
| associatedWith | Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948. | person |
| associatedWith | Guston, Philip, 1913- | person |
| associatedWith | Harmon, Lily, 1912- | person |
| associatedWith | Harvard University | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Hays, Juliette | person |
| associatedWith | Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966. | person |
| associatedWith | Jenkins, Paul, 1923- | person |
| associatedWith | Kadish, Reuben, 1913- | person |
| associatedWith | Kaprow, Allan. | person |
| associatedWith | Kline, Franz, 1910-1962. | person |
| associatedWith | Klüver, Billy, 1927-2004. | person |
| associatedWith | Levin, Harry, 1912-1994 | person |
| associatedWith | Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923- | person |
| associatedWith | Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923- | person |
| associatedWith | Lindner, Richard, 1901- | person |
| associatedWith | Lippard, Lucy R. | person |
| associatedWith | Liss, Joseph | person |
| associatedWith | Malamud, Bernard. | person |
| associatedWith | Megged, Matti, 1923-2003. | person |
| associatedWith | Motherwell, Robert. | person |
| associatedWith | Motherwell, Robert. | person |
| associatedWith | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Office of the Director. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988. | person |
| associatedWith | New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | New York Times Company | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988. | person |
| associatedWith | Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010. | person |
| associatedWith | Paz, Octavio, 1914- | person |
| associatedWith | Pearlstein, Philip, 1924- | person |
| associatedWith | Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008. | person |
| associatedWith | Reuben Kadish | person |
| associatedWith | Reynal, Jeanne, 1903- | person |
| associatedWith | Ribicoff, Belle Krasne, 1924- | person |
| associatedWith | Richenburg, Robert | person |
| associatedWith | Rio Grande Graphics. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970. | person |
| associatedWith | Sampson, George E., 1951- | person |
| associatedWith | Schapiro, Miriam, 1923- | person |
| associatedWith | Segal, George, 1924-2000. | person |
| associatedWith | Seitz, William Chapin | person |
| associatedWith | Selz, Peter Howard, 1919- | person |
| associatedWith | Smith, David, 1906-1965. | person |
| correspondedWith | Smith, William Jay, 1918- | person |
| associatedWith | Tobey, Mark. | person |
| associatedWith | Tworkov, Jack. | person |
| associatedWith | Vater, Regina, | person |
| associatedWith | Whitney Museum of American Art. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Young, Tom. | person |
| associatedWith | Yunkers, Adja, 1900-1983. | person |
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| Bronx | NY | US | |
| Newark | NJ | US |
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| American literature |
| Art, Modern |
| Authors, American |
| Art criticism |
| Art critics |
| Art historians |
| Artists |
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| Authors, Mexican |
| Italian literature |
| Japanese Americans |
| Mexican literature |
| Women art critics |
| World War, 1939-1945 |
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Birth 1928-05-21
Death 2017-01-30
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