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(1928-2017) Historian, critic, writer. Dore Ashton was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in the Bronx, New York.

Full Name

Dore Ashton

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


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OTHER

As a teenager, Ms. Ashton studied painting at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, New York.

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RESIDENCE

Ms. Ashton lived in Manhattan, New York.

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OTHER

Ms. Ashton taught art history at the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and the New School.

1928

BIRTH

Dorothea Shapiro was born in Newark, New Jersey, on May 21, 1928.

1962

LITWORK

The Unknown Shore: A View of Contemporary Art
Boston: Little, Brown

Nonfiction.

1969

LITWORK

A Reading of Modern Art
Case Western Reserve University Press
0829501525 / 978-0829501520
Nonfiction.

1973

LITWORK

The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning
Viking Adult
0670509124 / 978-0670509126
Nonfiction.

1974

LITWORK

A Joseph Cornell Album
Viking
0670408840 / 978-0670408849
Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

Yes, but...: A Critical Study of Philip Guston
Viking Adult
0670793884 / 978-0670793884
Nonfiction.

1980

LITWORK

A Fable of Modern Art
Thames & Hudson
0500233012 / 978-0500233016
Nonfiction.

1982

LITWORK

American Art Since 1945
Oxford University Press
0195203593 / 978-0195203592
Nonfiction.

1983

LITWORK

About Rothko
Oxford University Press
0195033485 / 978-0195033489
Nonfiction.

1987

LITWORK

Out of the Whirlwind: Three Decades of Arts Commentary
UMI Research Press
0835717410 / 978-0835717410
Nonfiction.

1992

LITWORK

Noguchi East and West
Knopf
0394588045 / 978-0394588049
Nonfiction.

2017

DEATH

Dore Ashton died in the Bronx, New York, on January 30, 2017.

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