Dore Ashton Explained

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.^[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.

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.
• 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.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Gaster, Adrian. The International Authors and Writers Who's who. 10 November 1977. International Biographical Centre. 9780900332456. Google Books.
2. Web site: Dore Ashton,Cooper Union. 2013-06-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20130607053343/http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/people/dore-ashton. 2013-06-07. dead.
3. Web site: NY School Review.
4. Web site: Dictionary of Art Historians.
5. Web site: Interview with Ashton.
6. Web site: Dore Ashton Papers and Ashton New York Times.
7. Web site: Art forum Ashton and Rose.
8. Web site: Ashton on Rothko. PBS.
9. Book: Ashton, Dore. David Rankin: The New York Years. 4 July 2013. Macmillan Art Publishing. 978-1921394584.
10. Web site: Dore Ashton, Yale.
11. Web site: Dore Ashton (1928–2017) . 2 February 2017 . Art Forum . Artforum International Magazine . 2 February 2017 . 5 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170205063200/https://www.artforum.com/news/id=66339 . dead .
12. Web site: Dore Ashton Guggenheim Fellow. https://archive.today/20130701060610/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=ASHTON&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2013&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=-1179&y=-641. dead. 2013-07-01.
13. Web site: Noguchi East and West.