Dore Ashton

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

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

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.
• The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning. University of California Press, 1973.
• A Joseph Cornell Album. Viking Press, 1974.
• 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.
• David Rankin: The New York Years. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013.

References

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

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