{{short description|American art historian}} thumb|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.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcMgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Ashton,+Dore%22+1928|title=The International Authors and Writers Who's who|first=Adrian|last=Gaster|date=10 November 1977|publisher=International Biographical Centre|isbn=9780900332456|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="cooper">{{cite web|title=Dore Ashton,Cooper Union|url=http://cooper.edu/humanities/people/dore-ashton|access-date=2013-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607053343/http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/people/dore-ashton|archive-date=2013-06-07|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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''<ref name="NY School">{{cite web|title=NY School Review|url=http://withhiddennoise.net/2010/12/09/dore-ashton-the-new-york-school/}}</ref> and ''Picasso On Art''.<ref name="pbs">{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Art Historians|url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/ashtond.htm}}</ref> Ashton also contributed to many publications, including Art Digest. and worked as an art critic at ''The New York Times''.<ref name="theartstory">{{cite web|title=Interview with Ashton|url=http://www.theartstory.org/critic-ashton-dore.htm}}</ref><ref name="New York Times">{{cite web|title=Dore Ashton Papers and Ashton New York Times|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/dore-ashton-papers-5858}}</ref> Ashton was one of the New York art critics who championed the New York School, along with Harold Rosenberg and Barbara Rose.<ref>{{cite web|title=Art forum Ashton and Rose|url=http://specificobject.com/objects/index.cfm?page=2&search=Dore%20Ashton&sort=pubdate&search_type=basic&options=artist#.Uayk10C1FqU}}</ref> Ashton's 1983 work on Mark Rothko, ''About Rothko'', remains a source of much discussion about the artist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashton on Rothko|website=PBS|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec98/rothko_8-5.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990202111007/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec98/rothko_8-5.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 2, 1999}}</ref> Ashton's last book, ''David Rankin: The New York Years'', on artist David Rankin was published in 2013.<ref>{{cite book|title=David Rankin: The New York Years|first=Dore|last=Ashton|date=4 July 2013|publisher=Macmillan Art Publishing|isbn=978-1921394584}}</ref>
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.<ref name="cooper" /><ref name="art.yale">{{cite web|title=Dore Ashton, Yale|url=http://art.yale.edu/DoreAshton}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.artforum.com/news/id=66339 |title=Dore Ashton (1928–2017) |date=2 February 2017 |website=Art Forum |publisher=Artforum International Magazine |access-date=2 February 2017 |archive-date=5 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205063200/https://www.artforum.com/news/id=66339 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Awards and honors== Ashton received numerous awards, including Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in 1963 and 1969,<ref name="gf">{{cite web|title=Dore Ashton Guggenheim Fellow|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=ASHTON&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2013&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=-1179&y=-641|archive-url=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|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-07-01}}</ref> the Frank J. Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association in 1963 and a Ford Foundation Award in 1965.<ref name="pbs" />
== 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, 1972. *''Yes, But… A Critical Study of Philip Guston.'' The Viking Press, 1976. *''A Fable of Modern Art.'' Thames and Hudson Inc., 1980. *''Noguchi East and West.'' University of California Press, 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520083400|title=Noguchi East and West|publisher=}}</ref> *''About Rothko.'' Oxford University Press, Inc., 1983. *''The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art.'' Kodansha USA Press, 1997. *''David Rankin: The New York Years.'' Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013.
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== External links == {{Wikiquote}} * {{YouTube|FHc6rV0-jP0|Dore Ashton interview about Philip Guston}} * [http://www.newcriterion.com/posts.cfm/An-Interview-with-Dore-Ashton-7045 Interview with Dore Ashton] * [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/05/art/dore-ashtons-engagart-criticism-in-the-face-of-contemporary-tragedies Dore Ashton, Brooklyn Rail] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204204851/http://www.latinamericanmasters.com/english/artist_toledo_essay.html Ashton essay on Toledo] * [http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/552-antonio-gaudi-border-crossings Ashton essay on Guadi, Criterion] * {{YouTube|fl4HxJ1DB8g|Interview with Ashton in Barcelona}} * [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/arts/design/dore-ashton-art-critic-who-embraced-and-inhabited-modernism-dies-at-88.html?_r=0 New York Times obituary] *[http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8xxpp Papers] at the [https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library]
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