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A Finding Aid to the Dore Ashton Papers, 1849, circa 1928-2014 in the Archives of American Art Funding for the processing of a portion of this collection was provided the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund Contact Information Reference Department Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Washington. D.C. 20560 www.aaa.si.edu/askus

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A Finding Aid to the Dore Ashton Papers, 1849,circa 1928-2014 in the Archives of American Art

Funding for the processing of a portion of this collection was providedthe Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund

Contact InformationReference DepartmentArchives of American ArtSmithsonian InstitutionWashington. D.C. 20560www.aaa.si.edu/askus

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Table of ContentsCollection Overview................................................................................................................ 1

Administrative Information.....................................................................................................1

Biographical / Historical......................................................................................................... 2

Scope and Contents............................................................................................................... 2

Arrangement.............................................................................................................................3

Names and Subject Terms..................................................................................................... 3

Series Descriptions/Container Listing.................................................................................. 5

1: Biographical Material, 1962-1978, undated...............................................................5

2: Correspondence, 1952-2010, undated.......................................................................5

3: Writings, 1952-1976, undated.....................................................................................9

4: Research files, 1849, 1950-1984, 2009, undated.....................................................12

5: Printed Materials, 1931-1981, undated.................................................................... 14

6: Artwork, 1949, 1953, 1982, undated........................................................................ 15

7: Photographs of Artwork, circa 1950-2010.............................................................. 15

8: Addition to the Dore Ashton Papers, circa 1928-2013...........................................22

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Collection OverviewRepository: Archives of American Art

Creator: Ashton, Dore

Title: Dore Ashton papers

Dates: 1849, circa 1928-2014, 1931 - 1983, 1952-2014

Quantity: 35.6 linear Feet

Abstract: The papers of Dore Ashton measure 35.6 linear feet and date from circa1928-2014, with one letter in the Joseph Cornell subject file dating from1849. The records document Dore Ashton's career as an art critic, historianand educator, with particular depth for the period of 1952 through 1990.The collection contains a small amount of biographical material, as wellas correspondence, writings, subject files, printed materials, artwork, andreference photographs of artworks. An addition to the Dore Ashton papersincludes biographical material, correspondence, writings, writing projectand subject files, teaching files, printed material, artwork and sketchbooks,and photographic material.

Language: English

Language: Most of the collection is in English; some correspondence and printedmaterials are in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Norwegian, and possiblyLatvian.

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of AcquisitionThe Dore Ashton papers were donated to the Archives of American Art by Dore Ashton May 27, 1982,May 8, 1997, June 2, 2011, and March, 25, 2016.

Related MaterialsAmong the holdings of the Archives is an oral history interview with Dore Ashton conducted November21, 2010 by George W. Sampson, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History ofWomen in the Visual Arts Project.

Dore Ashton papers are also located at Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

Processing InformationThe collection was partially processed by Jean Fitzgerald in 1997. The collection was minimallyprocessed and a finding aid created by Valerie Vanden Bossche in 2013 with funding provided by theSmithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The 2016 addition was processed to aminimal level and the finding aid updated by Hilary Price in 2017.

Preferred CitationDore Ashton papers, 1849, circa 1928-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Conditions Governing AccessUse of original papers requires an appointment.

Conditions Governing UseThe Dore Ashton papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literaryrights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship.The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Biographical / HistoricalDore Ashton (1928-) is an art critic, author, and educator living in New York City. She wrote, contributed ,and edited more than 30 books. Ashton was born in Newark New Jersey in 1928 and received an MA fromHarvard University in 1950. Her many books and articles focus on late 19th and 20th century art and artists.Ashton was associate editor at Art Digest from 1952-1954, and critic for Arts and Architecture at the New YorkTimes, 1955-1960. Starting in 1962 she held several lecturing posts at various institutions including the Schoolof Visual Arts, Cooper Union, and the New School for Social Research. She was awarded a Guggenheimfellowship in 1964 and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 1980. Among Ashton's books areAbstract Art Before Columbus, 1956; Poets and the Past, 1959; A Joseph Cornell Album, 1974; Yes, But…A Critical Study of Philip Guston, 1976, About Rothko, 1983; The New York School: a Cultural Reckoning,1973; Noguchi East and West, 1992; and David Rankin: The New York Years, 2013. Dore Ashton was the firstcritic to develop a comprehensive and eye-witness account of the history of the Abstract Expressions.

Ashton married artist Adja Yunkers (1900-1983) in 1953, and they had two daughters Alexandra (known asSasha) and Marina. In 1985 she married writer Matti Megged (1923-2003).

Scope and ContentsThe papers of Dore Ashton measure 35.6 linear feet and date from circa 1928-2014, with one letter in theJoseph Cornell subject file dating from 1849. The records document Dore Ashton's career as an art critic,historian and educator, with particular depth for the period of 1952 through 1990. The collection contains asmall amount of biographical material, as well as correspondence, writings, subject files, printed materials,artwork, and reference photographs of artworks. An addition to the Dore Ashton papers includes biographicalmaterial, correspondence, writings, writing project and subject files, teaching files, printed material, artworkand sketchbooks, and photographic material.

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with many artists, writers and others, including PatAdams, James Adley, Rudolf Arnheim, Jake Berthot, Dennis Congdon, George Herbert, Remo Guidieri,Barbara Howes, Fred Licht, Joan Punyet Miro, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, and Hedda Sterne, among others.Smaller amounts of letters are from Joseph Albers, Edward Albee, Richard Avedon, Richard Diebenkorn,David Driskell, Alberto Giacometti, Philip Guston, Lillian Hellman, Alger Hiss, Bernard Malamud, Joan Miro,Robert Motherwell, Lewis Mumford, Claes Oldenburg, and Vassilis Vassilikos.

Writings consist of transcripts of miscellaneous articles or those written for various publications. Researchfiles include reference or research materials for books, exhibitions, individuals and various topics. Individualsand topics include Jacopo Luis Borges, Allan Kaprow, Richard Lindner, Seong Moy, Jean Tinguely, MarkTobey, Jack Tworkov, Adja Yunkers; and Dadaism, poetry and symbolism.

The addition to the Dore Ashton papers (Series 8) includes biographical material, correspondence, writings,writing project and subject files, teaching files, printed material, artwork and sketchbooks, and photographicmaterial. Writings make up a significant part of the addition and contain hundreds of manuscripts, as well aslectures, notes, sixty notebooks, ten diaries, and writings by others. Writing project and subject files compriseover half of the addition and encompass a large collection of alphabetical files pertaining to artists, actors,writers, thinkers, and collaborators; work projects including writings, exhibitions, panels, symposia, andlecture series; as well as various other subjects and topics. The addition also contains teaching files relatedto Ashton's positions at the Cooper Union, the New School for Social Research, and Yale University. The

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photographic material in this series is also abundant and contains hundreds of original photographs of Ashtonthroughout all stages of her life, many with friends and family.

ArrangementThe collection is arranged as 8 series.

Missing TitleSeries 1: Biographical Materials, 1962-1978Series 2: Correspondence, 1945-2010, undatedSeries 3: Writings, 1952-1976, undatedSeries 4: Research files, 1849, 1950-1984, 2009, undatedSeries 5: Printed Materials, 1931-1981, undatedSeries 6: Artwork, 1949, 1952, 1983, undatedSeries 7: Photographs of Artwork, circa 1950-2010Series 8: Addition to the Dore Ashton Papers, circa 1928-2013

Names and Subject TermsThis collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Archives of American Art under the following terms:

Subjects:Art, Modern -- 20th centuryArt criticismArt criticsArtists -- United StatesArt -- Study and teachingDadaismPhotographsPoetry

Types of Materials:DiariesSketchbooksTranscripts

Names:Adams, Pat, 1928-Adley, James, 1931-Albee, Edward, 1928-Albers, JosefArnheim, RudolfAvedon, RichardBerthot, Jake, 1939-Borges, Jacopo LuisCongdon, DennisCooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art -- FacultyCornell, JosephDiebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993Driskell, David C.Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966Guidieri, RemoGuston, Philip, 1913-1980Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984

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Herbert, GeorgeHiss, AlgerHowes, BarbaraKaprow, AllanLicht, Fred, 1928-Lindner, Richard, 1901-Malamud, BernardMiró, Joan, 1893-Motherwell, RobertMoy, SeongMumford, Lewis, 1895-1990New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) -- FacultyOldenburg, Claes, 1929-Reuterswärd, Carl Fredrik, 1934-Sterne, Hedda, 1910-Tinguely, Jean, 1925-Tobey, MarkTworkov, JackVasilikos, Vasil#s, 1934-Yale University -- FacultyYunkers, Adja, 1900-1983

Occupations:EducatorsHistoriansWomen art critics

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Series Descriptions/Container Listing

1724622: Biographical Material, 1962-1978, undated

0.1 linear Feet; Box 1

Included are Mather Award citation materials, typed introduction of Ashton by Frances Osborn Robb at TCU HonorsWeek Convocation 1978, scattered financial documents, miscellaneous notes and a folder of family documents andphotographs. Additional family correspondence can be found in Series 2.2 alphabetical.

Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

724633Award Materials and Introduction, 1962, 1978

724634Family Documents and Photographs, 1973-1977, undated

724635Financial Records - Miscellaneous Receipts, 1958-1977

724636Miscellaneous Notes, 1969-1990, undated

2724623: Correspondence, 1952-2010, undated

4.6 linear Feet; Boxes 1-5, ov 15-16

Correspondence contains mixed business and personal correspondence from artists, family, friends, admirers,writers, publishers, museums, and galleries; many with enclosures including small artworks, exhibitionannouncements, poetry, and photographs and writings by others. There is a small amount of correspondence fromAshton to others. The largest amounts of correspondence are with Pat Adams, James Adley, Rudolf Arnheim, JakeBerthot, Dennis Congdon, George Herbert, Remo Guidieri, Barbara Howes, Fred Licht, Joan Punyet Miro, CarlFredrik Reutersward, and Hedda Sterne, among others. A small amount of correspondence (one to six letters) isfrom Joseph Albers, Edward Albee, Richard Avedon, Richard Diebenkorn, David Driskell, Alberto Giacometti,Philip Guston, Lillian Hellman, Alger Hiss, Bernard Malamud, Joan Miro, Robert Motherwell, Lewis Mumford,Claes Oldenburg, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Types of correspondence include holiday cards and postcards, as well asletters. Some letters and envelopes are illustrated. Correspondence is in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Germanand Norwegian.

The series is arranged in two subseries.

Missing Title2.1: Chronological, 1952-19832.2: Alphabetical, 1952-2010, undated

2.1724624: Chronological, 1952-19837246371952-1954, 1952-1954

7246381955, 1955

7246391956, 1956

724640January-November 1957, 1957

724641December 1957, 1957

7246421958, 1958

724643January-May 1959, 1959

724644June-December 1959, 1959

724645January-May 1960, 1960

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724646June-December 1960, 1960

724647January-March 1961, 1961

724648April-December 1961, 1961

7246491962, 1962

724650January-April 1963, 1963

724651May-December 1963, 1963

7246521964, 1964

724653January-September 1965, 1965

724654October-December 1965, 1965

724655January-March 1966

724656April-October 1966, 1966

724657November-December 1966, 1966

724658January-June 1967, 1967

724659July-September 1967, 1967

724660October-December 1967

724661January-February 1968, 1968

724662March-December 1968, 1968

724663January-March 1969, 1969

724664April-October 1969, 1969

724665November-December 1969, 1969

724666January-March 1970, 1970

724667April-July 1970, 1970

724668August-December 1970, 1970

7246691971, 1971

724670January-October 1972, 1972

724671November-December 1972, 1972

724672January-August 1973, 1973

724673September-December 1973, 1973

7246741974, 1974

724675January-May 1975, 1975

724676June-December 1975, 1975

724677January-March 1976, 1976

724678April-June 1976, 1976

724679July-December 1976, 1976

724680January-February 1977, 1977

724681March-April 1977, 1977

724682May-December 1977, 1977

7246831978, 1978

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724684January-June 1979, 1979

724685July-December 1979, 1979

724686January-August 1980, 1980

724687September-December 1980, 1980

724688January-February 1981, 1981

724689March-May 1981, 1981

724690June-December 1981, 1981

7246921982-1983, 1982-1983

2.2724625: Alphabetical, 1952-2010, undated724693A, 1953-2009

Correspondents include Edward Albee, Josef Albers, Pierre Alechinsky and RichardAvedon.

724694Adami, Valerio, 1984-2010

724695Adams, Pat, 1956-2008

724696Adley, James, 1993-2007

724697Arnheim, Rudolf, 1972-2002

724698Ashton, Dore to William Dworkin, 1945-1947, 2003

724699Ashton, Sylvia Smith Shapiro, 1955-1968

724700B, 1957-2009Correspondents include Alfred Barr, Roland Barthes, Elizabeth Bishop and JamesBrooks.

724701Berthot, Jake, 1976-2010

724702C, 1955-2009Correspondents include Anthony Caro, Michael Corris.

724703Congdon, Dennis, 1988-2010

724704D, 1970-2006Correspondents include Stephen De Satebler, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, PieroDorazio and David Driskell.

724705Davenport, Guy, 1973-1999

724706E, 1965-2009

724707Escobedo, Helen, 1985-2005

724708F, 1953-2008Correspondents include Morton Feldman, S. Lane Faison and Carolos Fuentes.

724709Forge, Andrew, 1973-2002

724710de Francia, Peter, 1973-2008

724711G, 1952-2010Correspondents include Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Graves and Serge Guilbaut.

724712George, Herbert, 1976-2008

724713Giacometti, Alberto, 1959

724714Goto, Joe, 1966-1992, undated

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724715Greene, Stephen, 1964-1995

724716Guidieri, Remo, 1986-2009

724717Gustafson, Christian, 1988-2008

724718Guston, Philip, 1978, undated

724719H, 1969-2010Correspondents include David Hare, Barbara Hepworth, Lillian Hellman, Alger Hiss,and Sam Hunter.

724720Hammacher, Abraham Marie [Bram], 1962-2001

724721Hartnett, Susan, 2001-2010

724722Howes, Barbara, 1960-1990

724723I, 1976-2010

724724J, 1989-2007Correspondents include Alfredo Jaar, Ray Johnson.

724725Jeannet, Frederic-Yves, 1998-2008

724750K, 1965-2010Correspondents include Ellsworth Kelly, Stanley Kunitz.

724751L, 1973-2010Correspondents include Jack Lenore Larsen and Richard Lindner.

724752Licht, Fred, 1973-2003, undated

724753Lynton, Norbert, 1983-2007

724754M, 1964-2010Correspondents include Bernard Malamud, W.S. Merwin, and Robert Motherwell.

724755Megged, Matti, undated

724756Miro, Joan, Delores and Joan Punyet, 1964-2005

724757N, 1989-2004

724758O, 1985-2007Correspondents include Nathan Oliveira, Claes Oldenburg, and Daniel Ortega.

724759P, 1976-2009

724760Q, 1996-2010

724761R, 1969-2010Correspondents include Archie Rand, Ad Reinhardt, and Theodore Roethke.

724762Reutersward, Carl-Fredrik, 1984-2006

724763S, 1972-2010Correspondents include Karl Schrag, Peter Selz, Roger Shattuck, Bill Smock, PierreSoulages

724765S, 1972-2010

724766Shapiro, Ralph Neil [Ashton], 1978, 1991, undated

724767Sterne, Hedda, 1976-2002

724769T, 1986-2009Correspondents include Mark Tansey, Harold Tovish, William Tucker, and JackTworkov

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724770Unidentified and Unknown Correspondents, 1965-2010

724771V, 1966-2009Correspondents include Regina Vater, Emilio Verdova, Ursula von Rydingsvard.

724772Vassilikos, Vassilis, 1980-2008

724773W, 1977-2007Correspondents include Betty Woodman, Christopher Wilmarth, Richard Wilbur, andJames Wright.

724774Wadley, Nick, 1989-2010

724775X-Y, 1996-2008Correspondents include Jack Youngerman.

724776Yunkers, Adja, 1960

724777Yunkers, Alexandra and Marina, 1991-1993, 2009, undated

3724628: Writings, 1952-1976, undated

1.6 linear Feet; Boxes 5-7

Series 3 contains miscellaneous typescripts for unidentified articles, and typescripts of articles and reviews forvarious publications including Arts and Architecture and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Miscellaneous typescripts are arranged chronologically, followed by typescripts for specific publications arrangedalphabetically by title of publication.

724778"Avanguadia;" "What Is Avant-Garde?," undated

724779"Between Cave and Computer," undated

724780Guiseppe Capogrossi, undated

724781"Jose De Rivera: A Study," undated

724782"Donati," undated

724783"Fra Angelico," undated

724784Goya, undated

724785Philip Guston, undated

724786"Those Etruscans;" "Sardinia;" "Rome," undated

724787"Paris Letter;" Review of "Nature in Abstraction" Exhibition, undated

724788Guston, Stamos, Ippolito; Iaroslav Serpan, Claude Viseux, Mitchell, Lester Johnson,undated

724789Hans Hofmann, Kline, De Kooning, Guston, Day Schnabel, Tworkov, Stefanelli,Schapiro; Joan Mitchell, Glarner, De Rivera, Lipton, Guston, Brooks, Hartigan, undated

724790"Interview with George Salles, Director des Musees France," undated

724791Gabriel Kohn, undated

724792Henri Michaux, undated

724793"Miro's Ceramics," undated

724794"More Than Enlightened: The Olivetti Method," undated

724795Motherwell, Mirko, Louis, Bluhm; Dugmore, Morris, Diebenkorn, Stefanelli,Wonner, Mitchell, Goldberg, Nicho Las Marsicano, Stankiewicz, Andrews, Nivola, undated

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724796"Report from Rome: Tchelitchew," undated

724797"Jeanne Reynal," undated

724802Wols, undated

724803"An Interview with Christian Zervos," undated

724804"St.-John Perse's Guadeloupe," undated

724805Italian "Synthesists," undated

724806"Prague Notes," undated

724807French Modernist Artists, undated

724808Pre-Columbian Art, undated

724809"Abstract and Non-Objective Art," undated

724810"The Urge to Abstraction," undated

724811Position of Abstract Art in Europe, undated

724821"Drawing in Modern American Art," undated

724823"The Good and the Civilized," undated

724824"The Age Old Art of Letters," undated

724826Sarasota Catalogue Introduction, undated

724827Unidentified Fragments, undated

724829Kienbusch, 1952

724830"Passage from a Critic's Diary," 1956

724832"Antonio Gaudi," circa 1957

724833"Notes on France and Spain;" Smith, Tomlin, Appel, Woelffer, 1957

724835"A View of American Painting," 1958

724836Paris Art Scene, 1960

724838J.B. Newmann, 1960

724839"Americans in Paris;" "The 30th Venice Bienniale;" Avant-Garde Paintings inPrague, 1960

724842"Interview with Marcel Jean;" Chamberlain, Leslie, Goodnough, Suzuki, Sawada,Lund, Conner, Natkin; "The Age of Lyricism," 1960

724844"As the Sun Grows Cold," 1961

724845"Lee Bontecou;" Picasso, 1962

724847Lobdell; Goto; Riopelle; Cohen, 1963

724849"James Rosati;" "Portrait of the Artist as Litterateur: Varujan Boghosian," 1964

724850"Assemblage and Beyond;" "Curating Instant Art in History;" "Drawings ofMichaelangelo;" "Pastel Anthology," 1966

724852Catalogue Introduction for Modern Masters in Miniature"Protest;" "Robert Murray,"1966

724860"Lee Bontecou;" "Deborah Remington," 1967-1968

724862"Use of Manufactured Objects on the Picture Plane;" "Picaresque Episodes of aGreat Museum;" "An Open and Shut Case," 1967-1968

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724863"Frank Roth," 1967

724865"The Merging Media;" "Merde, Alors!," 1969

724866"Education Through The Arts in Every Sense," 1969-1970

724868Abstract Expressionism; Landscape Painting; Elsa Schmid, Stained Glass Artist,1969-1970

724870Preface for Exhibition Catalog, 1970

724871Review of book Monet by William C. Seitz, undated

724873"Josef Albers;" "Louise Nevelson;" Re: Artist-Sponsored Exhibitions, 1971

724874"Miro's Sculptures," 1972

724876"Art and Social Change," circa 1973

724877"A Romantic's Homage to Hans Gerth," circa 1973

724879"Robert Motherwell," circa 1973

724880Jack Sonenberg, 1973

725896Notes for "From Campus to Main Street" Panel at CAA, 1973

725897Regimenting Cliches Applied to Artists, 1973

724887"Jake Berthot," 1973

725898"Paintings by Harvey Quaytman," 1973

725899"Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler," 1973

724890Philip Guston, 1974

724892Lee Krasner, 1974

724894"Brice Marden's Drawings," 1974

725900"Our Contemporary, de Kooning," 1975

724898"The Poster as Contemporary Genre;" "Introduction: Images of an Era," 1975

724899"No More Than an Accident," circa 1976

725895"Philosopher or Dog?," 1976

725901Art and Artist Article, 1971

725902Art Bulletin Articles, 1973, 1975

725903Art in America Articles, 1966

725904Art International Articles, 1962, 1964

725905Arts Articles, 1966-1977

725906Arts and Architecture Articles, 1958-1967

725907Aujourd'hui Article, 1966

725908Baltimore Museum Bulletin Article, undated

725909Canadian Art Articles, 1963-1964

725910Cimaise Articles, 1952-1963, undated

725911Colloquio Articles, 1971-1976

725912Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Article, 1973

725913Craft Horizons Article, 1969

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725914D'Arts Article, circa 1969-1970

725915Das Kunstwerk Articles, 1962-1963

725916France Observateur Article, 1962

725917Harper's Bazaar Article, undated

725918L'Art Vivant Article, 1970

725919Le Monde Articles, 1970

725920London Art News & Review Article, undated

725921London Studio Articles, 1957-1962, undated

725922Motive Article, 1965

725923New York Times Review of Mortal Victory by Lawrence Hanson, undated

725924Opus International Articles, 1966-1970

725925Plural Article, 1973

725926Quadrum Articles, 1964, 1966

725927Review 75 Article, 1975

725928St. Louis Post-Dispatch Articles, 1963-1965, undated

725929San Francisco Evergreen Article, undated

725930Show Article, 1963

725931Studio International Articles, 1961-1966, undated

725932Studio International Articles, 1966-1973

725933XXieme Siecle Articles, 1957-1968, undated

4724629: Research files, 1849, 1950-1984, 2009, undated

3.3 linear Feet; Boxes 7-10, ov 15-16

Research files include materials on Ashton's books, on exhibitions, individuals, and miscellaneous topics. Includedare clippings, artworks, photographic material, booklets, brochures, correspondence, and notes. Topics includeAngry Art, civil rights, Czech, Polish, and religious art, film, Dadaism, poetry, print-making, and symbolism. Amongindividuals are Jacopo Luis Borges, Allan Kaprow, Richard Lindner, Seong Moy, Jean Tinguely, Mark Tobey, JackTworkov, and Adja Yunkers.

Arranged alphabetically by the broad topics of books, exhibitions, individuals and miscellaneous topics, thenalphabetically by specific name or title.

725477Book: Art and Politics in the 20th Century, 1973-1980

725478Book: Art in America Since 1945, undated

725479Book: Great Graphic Masters, undated

725480Book: In the Shadow of Frenhofer, undated

725481Book: A Joseph Cornell Album, 1849, 1943-1977

725482Book: Cutting and Printing Woodcuts, circa 1952

725483Book: Picasso On Art, 1972-1974

725484Book: Poets and the Past, 1957-1960, 1984, undated

725485Book: A Reading of Modern Art, 1969-1977

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725547Book: A Reading of Modern Art, 1969-1977

725548Book: Recent American Paintings, 1959-1961

725549Book: Response to Crisis in American Art, 1967-1968

725550Book: Robert Rauschenberg's Drawings for Dante's Inferno , 1961-1964

725551Book: Rosa Bonheur, 1977-1981

725552Book: Time-Space in the Arts, undated

725553Book: The Unknown Shore, 1959-1969

725554Book: Yes, But...A Critical Study of Philip Guston, 1958-1977

725555Exhibition: "Abstract Art Before Columbus," 1956-1959

725935Exhibition: "Abstract Drawings and Watercolors: U.S.A.," 1961-1965

725556Exhibition: Darmstadt Drawings International, 1964

725557Exhibition: "Lam, Gorky, Noguchi, Matta in New York: 1939-1949," 2009, undated

725558Exhibition: "Modern American Drawings," 1965-1966

725559Exhibition: "Poets and Prints," 1960

725560Individuals: Milton Avery, 1967-1968

725561Individuals: Rene Berger, 1967-1968

725565Individuals: Jacopo Luis Borges, 1967-1976

725566Individuals: Pol Bury, 1953-1969

725567Individuals: Milton Cohen, 1960-1964

725568Individuals: James Ensor, 1976

725569Individuals: John Ferren, 1979-1980

725570Individuals: Helen Frankenthaler, 1960-1965

725571Individuals: Ernest Gambart, undated

725573Individuals: Allan Kaprow, 1961-1968

725581Individuals: Andrew Mikhailovich Lanskoy, 1955

725582Individuals: Jack Levine, 1952, undated

725585Individuals: Richard Lindner, 1969-1977

725586Individuals: Gustav Moreau, 1961

725587Individuals: Seong Moy, 1951-1954

725588Individuals: Constantino Nivola, 1955-1964

725589Individuals: Gabor Peterdi, 1952, undated

725590Individuals: Rainer Marie Rilke, 1974, undated

725591Individuals: Miriam Schapiro, 1965

725592Individuals: Nicolas Schoffer, 1954-1955

725593Individuals: Tony Smith, 1981

725594Individuals: Jean Tinguely, 1959-1962

725595Individuals: Mark Tobey, 1953-1971

725596Individuals: Jack Tworkov, 1957-1961

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725597Individuals: Adja Yunkers, 1950-1953

725598Topics: Angry Arts, 1964-1971

725599Topics: Association Internationale des Critiques D'Art, 1963, undated

725600Topics: Black Art, 1966-1969

725601Topics: Chile, 1974

725602Topics: Civil Rights, 1963-1964

725603Topics: Coinciding Arts, 1960-1968

725604Topics: Czech Art, 1957-1962

725605Topics: Dadaism and Neo-Realism, 1960-1964

725606Topics: Dadaism and Neo-Realism, 1960-1964

725607Topics: Film, 1964-1970

725608Topics: Fondation Maeght, 1970

725609Topics: MOMA: Dissidents in Art, 1969

725610Topics: New York Times, 1958-1964

725611Topics: P.E.N. American Center, 1980, undated

725612Topics: Performing Arts, 1967-1968

725613Topics: Poetry, 1973-1978, undated

725614Topics: Polish Art, 1960-1961

725615Topics: Printmaking, 1958-1953

725616Topics: Prints, 1955-1964

725617Topics: Religious Art, 1951-1962

725618Topics: Rio Grande Graphics, 1952, undated

725619Topics: Symbolism, 1951-1964

725620Topics: Washington Post, 1963-1981

5724630: Printed Materials, 1931-1981, undated

0.5 linear Feet; Box 10

Printed materials collected by Ashton include brochures and booklets, clippings, exhibition announcements andcatalogs, galley proofs, press releases and programs. Topics include Dubuffet, Avedon, Ippolito, the New YorkSchool, collecting, Italian art, Jackson Pollock, sculpture, book reviews, and lectures.

Arranged alphabetically by type of material, chronologically thereafter.

725621Brochures and Booklets, 1951-1969, undated

725622Clippings, undated

725623Clippings, 1931-1935

725624Clippings, 1951-1952

725625Clippings, 1953

725626Clippings, 1954

725627Clippings, 1955

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725628Clippings, 1956

725629Clippings, 1957

725630Clippings, 1958

725631Clippings, 1960-1962

725632Clippings, 1963

725633Clippings, 1964

725634Clippings, 1965

725635Clippings, 1966

725636Clippings, 1967

725637Clippings, 1968

725638Clippings, 1969

725639Clippings, 1970

725640Clippings, 1971

725641Clippings, 1972

725642Clippings, 1973

725643Clippings, 1974

725644Clippings, 1975-1976

725645Clippings, 1978

725646Clippings, 1979-1980

725647Clippings, 1981

725648Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs, 1933-1979, undated

725649Galley Proofs, circa 1964-1970

725650Press Releases, 1962-1978

725651Programs, 1962

6724631: Artwork, 1949, 1953, 1982, undated

0.1 linear Feet; Box 10, ov 15

Artwork includes various designs of a face and symbols on nine scraps of waxy paper; a Christmas card possiblydesigned by Adja Yunkers; 4.25x5.75 print signed Lichtenstein 1949; pencil or charcoal on paper design, datedJan 23.52 marked "for Dore," illegible signature; collage print on paper entitled "Dore on the Beach," signed AdjaYunkers, with envelop from the Edna Hibel Gallery in New York.

Arranged in donor's original order.

725652Drawings and Prints, 1949, 1952, 1983, undated

7724632: Photographs of Artwork, circa 1950-2010

2.5 linear Feet; Boxes 10-14, ov 15

Photographs include black and white photocopy prints and a few prints and postcards, acquired by Ashton forreference, and representing mostly 19th and 20th century American and European artists. Most are labeled and of asingle work of art, some show artworks in exhibition spaces.

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Arranged alphabetically by artist's surname, followed by subjects.

725653A, circa 1950-2010

725654Adams, Pat, circa 1950-2010

725655Afro, circa 1950-2010

725656Alechinsky, Pierre, circa 1950-2010

725657Antes, Horst, circa 1950-2010

725658Appel, Karel, circa 1950-2010

725659Arakawa, circa 1950-2010

725660Arp, Jean, circa 1950-2010

725661Avery, Milton, circa 1950-2010

725662B, circa 1950-2010

725663Bacon, Francis, circa 1950-2010

725664Baldessari, John, circa 1950-2010

725665Barragan, Luis, circa 1950-2010

725666Baruchello, circa 1950-2010

725667Bearden, Romare, circa 1950-2010

725668Beauchamp, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725669Beck, Rosemarie, circa 1950-2010

725670Beckmann, Max, circa 1950-2010

725671Bess, Forrest, circa 1950-2010

725672Birolli, Renato, circa 1950-2010

725673Bladen, Ronald, circa 1950-2010

725674Boghosian, Varusan, circa 1950-2010

725675Bonnard, Pierre, circa 1950-2010

725676Brancusi, Constantin, circa 1950-2010

725677Braque, Georges, circa 1950-2010

725678Brooks, James, circa 1950-2010

725679Bucker, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725680Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, circa 1950-2010

725681Bury, Pol, circa 1950-2010

725682C, circa 1950-2010

725683Caro, Anthony, circa 1950-2010

725684Carone, Nicholas, circa 1950-2010

725685Cesar, circa 1950-2010

725686Cezanne, circa 1950-2010

725687Chamberlain, John, circa 1950-2010

725688Christo, circa 1950-2010

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725689Corneille, circa 1950-2010

725690Corot, circa 1950-2010

725691D, circa 1950-2010

725692D'Arcangelo, Allen, circa 1950-2010

725693Davie, Alan, circa 1950-2010

725694Davis, Stuart, circa 1950-2010

725695de Chirico, Giorgio, circa 1950-2010

725696Degas, Edgar, circa 1950-2010

725697de Kooning, Willem, circa 1950-2010

725698Delauney, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725699Demuth, Charles, circa 1950-2010

725700de Rivera, Jose, circa 1950-2010

725701Diebenkorn, Richard, circa 1950-2010

725702Dine, circa 1950-2010

725703Donati, Enrico, circa 1950-2010

725704Dorazio, circa 1950-2010

725705Dubuffet, Jean, circa 1950-2010

725706Duchamp, Marcel, circa 1950-2010

725707Dufour, Bernard, circa 1950-2010

725708Dugmore, Edward, circa 1950-2010

725709E, circa 1950-2010

725710Engel, Jules, circa 1950-2010

725711F, circa 1950-2010

725712G, circa 1950-2010

725713Gauguin, Paul, circa 1950-2010

725714Geoffrey, Iqbal, circa 1950-2010

725715George, Herbert, circa 1950-2010

725716Giacometti, Alberto, circa 1950-2010

725717Glarner, Fritz, circa 1950-2010

725718Glasco, Joseph, circa 1950-2010

725719Gleizes, Albert, circa 1950-2010

725720Goldberg, Michael, circa 1950-2010

725721Goodnough, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725722Gorky, Arshile, circa 1950-2010

725723Gottlieb, Adolph, circa 1950-2010

725724Goya, circa 1950-2010

725725Graham, John, circa 1950-2010

725726Greene, Stephen, circa 1950-2010

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725727Grosz, George, circa 1950-2010

725728H, circa 1950-2010

725729Haber, circa 1950-2010

725730Hadzi, Dimitri, circa 1950-2010

725731Hajdu, Etienne, circa 1950-2010

725732Hartigan, Grace, circa 1950-2010

725733Hartley, Marsden, circa 1950-2010

725734Held, Al, circa 1950-2010

725735Hepworth, Barbara, circa 1950-2010

725736Higgins, Eduard, circa 1950-2010

725737Hofmann, Hans, circa 1950-2010

725738Holtz, Carl, circa 1950-2010

725739Hultberg, John, circa 1950-2010

725740I, circa 1950-2010

725741Indiana, Robert , circa 1950-2010

725742Inokuma, circa 1950-2010

725743Ipousteguy, Jean, circa 1950-2010

725744Ippolito, Angelo, circa 1950-2010

725745J, circa 1950-2010

725746Jacobsen, circa 1950-2010

725747Jewish Museum New York, circa 1950-2010

725748Johns, Jasper, circa 1950-2010

725749Johnson, Lester, circa 1950-2010

725750Johnson, Ray, circa 1950-2010

725751K, circa 1950-2010

725752Kelly, Ellsworth, circa 1950-2010

725765Kienbush, William, circa 1950-2010

725766Klapheck, circa 1950-2010

725767Klee, Paul, circa 1950-2010

725768Klein, Yves, circa 1950-2010

725769Kleine, Franz, circa 1950-2010

725770Koenig, J.F., circa 1950-2010

725771Kohn, Wolf, circa 1950-2010

725772Kupka, Frank, circa 1950-2010

725773L, circa 1950-2010

725774Lanyon, Peter, circa 1950-2010

725775Lasansky, Mauricio, circa 1950-2010

725776Leger, Fernand, circa 1950-2010

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725777Liberman, Alexander, circa 1950-2010

725778Lipchitz, Jacques, circa 1950-2010

725779Lipton, Seymour, circa 1950-2010

725784Lobdell, Frank, circa 1950-2010

725785Louis, Morris, circa 1950-2010

725786Lukin, Sven, circa 1950-2010

725787M, circa 1950-2010

725788Marca-Relli, Corrado, circa 1950-2010

725789Magritte, Rene, circa 1950-2010

725790Maillol, Aristide, circa 1950-2010

725791Marin, John, circa 1950-2010

725792Matisse, Henri, circa 1950-2010

725794Matta, circa 1950-2010

725795Maurer, Alfred, circa 1950-2010

725796McNiell, George, circa 1950-2010

725797Miro, Joan, circa 1950-2010

725798Mitchell, Joan, circa 1950-2010

725799Modigliani, Amadeo, circa 1950-2010

725800Mondrian, Piet, circa 1950-2010

725801Monet, Claude, circa 1950-2010

725802Moore, Henry, circa 1950-2010

725803Motherwell, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725804Moy, Seong, circa 1950-2010

725805Muller, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725806Munch, Edvard, circa 1950-2010

725807Murray, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725808N, circa 1950-2010

725809Nakian, Reuben, circa 1950-2010

725810Natkin, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725811Nevelson, Louise, circa 1950-2010

725812Newman, Barnett, circa 1950-2010

725813Nivola, Constantino, circa 1950-2010

725814Noland, Kenneth, circa 1950-2010

725815O, circa 1950-2010

725816O'Keeffe, Georgia, circa 1950-2010

725817Oldenburg, Claes, circa 1950-2010

725818Oliveira, Nathan, circa 1950-2010

725819Oran, Ran, circa 1950-2010

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725820Ortman, George, circa 1950-2010

725821P, circa 1950-2010

725822Paolozzi, Eduardo, circa 1950-2010

725823Paris, Harold, circa 1950-2010

725824Pearlstein, Philip, circa 1950-2010

725825Picasso, Pablo, circa 1950-2010

725826Pissarro, Camille, circa 1950-2010

725827Pollock, Jackson, circa 1950-2010

725828Quaytman, Harvey, circa 1950-2010

725829R, circa 1950-2010

725830Rauschenberg, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725831Remington, Deborah, circa 1950-2010

725832Richenberg, Robert, circa 1950-2010

725833Riopelle, Jean, circa 1950-2010

725834Rodin, Auguste, circa 1950-2010

725835Rosati, James, circa 1950-2010

725836Rosenthal, Bernard, circa 1950-2010

725837Roszak, Theodore J., circa 1950-2010

725838Roth, Frank , circa 1950-2010

725839Rothko, Mark, circa 1950-2010

725840S, circa 1950-2010

725841Saul, Peter, circa 1950-2010

725842Schapiro, Miriam, circa 1950-2010

725843Schoffer, Nicolas, circa 1950-2010

725844Schwitters, Kurt, circa 1950-2010

725845Scott, William, circa 1950-2010

725846Seurat, Georges, circa 1950-2010

725847Sima, Joseph, circa 1950-2010

725848Smith, Leon Polk, circa 1950-2010

725849Smith, Richard, circa 1950-2010

725850Soulages, Pierre, circa 1950-2010

725851Stamos, Theodoros, circa 1950-2010

725852Stankiewicz, Richard, circa 1950-2010

725853Stefanelli, Joseph, circa 1950-2010

725854Steinberg, Saul, circa 1950-2010

725855Stella, Frank, circa 1950-2010

725856Sterne, Hedda, circa 1950-2010

725857Still, Clyfford, circa 1950-2010

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725858T, circa 1950-2010

725859Tal Coat, Pierre, circa 1950-2010

725860Tapies, Antoni, circa 1950-2010

725861Tobey, Mark, circa 1950-2010

725862Tomlin, Bradley Walker, circa 1950-2010

725863Torres-Garcia, Joaquin, circa 1950-2010

725864Turnbull, William, circa 1950-2010

725865Turner, Joseph Mallord William, circa 1950-2010

725866Tworkov, Jack, circa 1950-2010

725867V, circa 1950-2010

725868Vasarely, Victor, circa 1950-2010

725869Vicente, Esteban, circa 1950-2010

725870Villon, Jacques, circa 1950-2010

725871Viseux, Claude, circa 1950-2010

725872Voulkos, Peter, circa 1950-2010

725873W, circa 1950-2010

725874Wiley, William, circa 1950-2010

725875Xceron, Jean, circa 1950-2010

725876Yrisarry, Mario, circa 1950-2010

725877Youngerman, Jack, circa 1950-2010

725878Z, circa 1950-2010

725879Zacharias, Athos, circa 1950-2010

725880Zox, Larry, circa 1950-2010

725881American 19th Century Drawing and Painting: Bierstadt-Tarbell, circa 1950-2010

725882American 19th Century Drawings and Paintings: Sargent, John Singer, circa1950-2010

725883American 19th Century Drawing and Painting: Whistler, James McNeill, circa1950-2010

725884American 20th Century Drawings, circa 1950-2010

725885California and Chicago Artists, circa 1950-2010

725886Environmental Earthworks, John Gibson Gallery, circa 1950-2010

725887European 19th and 20th Century Sculpture: A-D, circa 1950-2010

725888European 19th and 20th Century Sculpture: J-M, circa 1950-2010

725889European 19th and 20th Century Sculpture: Picasso, Pablo, circa 1950-2010

725890European 20th Century Painting, circa 1950-2010

725891Japanese 20th Century Painting, circa 1950-2010

725892Miscellaneous Photographers: Hammid, Hine, Kertesz, Lartigue, Moore, Steichen,circa 1950-2010

725893Miscellaneous, circa 1950-2010

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72589420th Century Drawings, circa 1950-2010

81701671: Addition to the Dore Ashton Papers, circa 1928-2013

22.8 linear Feet; Box 17-40, OV 41-42

The addition to the Dore Ashton papers includes biographical material, correspondence, writings, writing project andsubject files, teaching files, printed material, artwork and sketchbooks, and photographic material. Writings make upa significant part of the addition and contain hundreds of manuscripts, as well as lectures, notes, sixty notebooks, tendiaries, and writings by others. Writing project and subject files comprise over half of the addition and encompass alarge collection of alphabetical files pertaining to a wide variety of people including artists, actors, writers, thinkers,and collaborators; work projects including writings, exhibitions, panels, symposia, and lecture series; as well asvarious other subjects and topics. Many of the files contain research compiled for a vast number of writing projectsincluding books, articles, and catalog essays. The addition also contains teaching files related to Ashton's positionsat the Cooper Union, the New School for Social Research, and Yale University. Artwork and seven sketchbookscontain brief studies of people and places, most done while traveling. The photographic material in this series isalso abundant and contains hundreds of original photographs of Ashton throughout all stages of her life, many withfriends and family. Ashton is also captured giving lectures, and at exhibitions and other professional engagements.

The series is arranged as 8 subseries.

Missing Title8.1: Biographical Material, 1943-20128.2: Correspondence, circa 1945-20128.3: Writings, 1947-20118.4: Writing Project and Subject Files, circa 1950-20128.5: Teaching Files, 1967-20138.6: Printed Material, circa 1950-20128.7: Artwork and Sketchbooks, circa 1950-20008.8: Photographic Material, circa 1928-2010

8.12417481: Biographical Material, 1943-2012

0.8 linear Feet; Box 17

Biographical material dates from 1943-2012 and includes address books, agendas, curricula vitae, membershipcards, and passports. A few files contain Ashton's personal business records regarding a donation to the Museum ofModern Art library and royalty statements from publishers. Also found here are personal and business files relatingto Ashton's family, including her father and children.

2417598Address Index, circa 1980

2417610Address Books, circa 1954-1986

2417613Agendas, 1956-2012

2417616Curricula Vitae, circa 1988-1992

2417634Donation to the Museum of Modern Art, 1982

2417637Family

2417649Children's Drawings, circa 1970-1980

2417658Marina's Scrapbook, 1978

2417661Ralph Shapiro (Father), 1943-1992

2417664Personal Business Records, circa 2000-2008

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2417667Membership Cards, 1955-1971

2417670New York Public Library Medal, 1961

2417673Passports, 1948-1985

2417676Royalties, circa 1975-2010

8.22417493: Correspondence, circa 1945-2012

1.4 linear Feet; Box 17-19

Correspondence dates from circa 1943-2012 and, as with Series 2, contains mixed business and personalcorrespondence from artists, family, friends, writers, publishers, museums, and galleries. While predominantlycorrespondence, small artworks, printed material, and writings by others are mixed in. The largest amounts ofcorrespondence are with actor Eusebio Lázaro, art historians Fred Licht and Norbert Lynton, and her second husbandMatti Megged. Types of correspondence include letters and postcards. Correspondence is in English, Spanish, andFrench.

2417685Ashton, Sylvia (Mother), 1956-1965

2417688A, General, circa 1970-2010

2417697B, General, circa 1970-2012

2417703Congdon, Dennis, 2009-2012

2417706C-D, General, 1982-2012

2417718Escobedo, Helen, circa 1991-1992

2417721E-G, General, circa 1970-2012

2417727H-I, General, circa 1970-2012

2417733Jeannet, Frédéric Yves, 2005-2007

2417739J, General, 1972-2012

2417745Karetnikova, Inga, circa 1976-1995

2417748K, General, 1987-2012

2417751Lázaro, Eusebio, 2001-2012

2417754Licht, Fred, 1972-2010

2417760Lynton, Norbert, 1971-2007

2417766L, General, 1970-2012

2417769Megged, Matti, 1967-1987

2417772M-P, General, 1976-2012

2417781Quirarte, Vincent, 1994-2006

2417784R, General, circa 1970-2012

2417787Shapiro, Ralph Neil (Father), 1971-1976

2417790S, General, circa 1965-2012

2417793T-V, General, circa 1960-2012

2417796Writing Assignments and Lectures, circa 1970-2012

2417808W, General, 1992-2011

2417811Yunkers, Adja, 1953-1982

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2417814Yunkers, Marina and Sasha (Children), 1984-2011

2417817Y, General, 1972-2012

2417823Postcards, circa 1945-2011

2417826Outgoing, circa 1961-1973

2417829Unidentified and Unknown Correspondents, 1965-2012

8.32417496: Writings, 1947-2011

6.3 linear Feet; Box 19-25

Writings date from 1947-2011 and contain manuscripts, lectures, notes, sixty notebooks, ten diaries, and a smallnumber of writings by others. Manuscripts include hundreds of essays, articles, introductions, and reviews, as wellas a few books and book chapters, including A Joseph Cornell Album (1974), A Fable of Modern Art (1980) andDelicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art (1997). Manuscripts are mostly typescripts, with a small number ofpublished versions of Ashton's writings in magazines. Occasional items of correspondence, handwritten notes, andother reference articles are found in the folders. Lectures contain typescripts of talks given at colleges, universities,museums and as part of symposia, conferences, commencements, and exhibition related programming. Notes andnotebooks contain a set of index cards with research and quotations by various artists and thinkers, two folders ofscattered notes on a variety of subjects, and sixty notebooks. The majority of the notebooks are travel related andcontain logistical notes, jottings, lists, names and addresses, thoughts and reflections, as well as sketches. Ten diarieschronicle Ashton's day-to-day life, and contain illuminating recounts of dinner parties and conversations with artistsand writers. Writings by others predominantly contain writings by art historian and friend Fred Licht, but otherwritings by friends are also found here, as well as one file of unidentified writings.

The subseries is arranged as 5 sub-subseries.

Missing Title8.3.1: Manuscripts, circa 1950-20108.3.2: Lectures, circa 1960-20088.3.3: Notes and Notebooks, circa 1957-20118.3.4: Diaries, 1947-20088.3.5: Writings by Others, circa 1954-2010

8.3.12417523: Manuscripts, circa 1950-2010

3.4 linear Feet; Box 19-22

2417832"1961-1973," for Hirshhorn Catalog, circa 1975

2417835"Abstract Expressionism," 1991

2417838"Abstract Expressionism: Background and Early Years," circa 1970

2417844"Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, 1938-1948," 1985

2417847"Abstract Thoughts from Abstraction," 2004

2417853"Abstraction," 2008

2417856"Action," 1992

2417859"The Adventures of the 'New York School'," 1995

2417862"Anna Akhmatova, 1899-1966," 1995

2417874"Alechinsky in Pittsburgh or Wherever He Happens to Be," 1978

2417883"All His Roads Led to..." (Guston), 2009

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2417889"American Mutations," 1962

2417892[Curtis Anderson], 1990

2417895"Karel Appel," 1982-1983

2417901"Architecture I," 1977

2417907"Are We Sufficiently Alarmed?," 2005

2417910"Rudolph Arnheim," 1996

2417913"Art and Social Change," circa 1970

2417916"The Artist as the Conscience of Society," circa 1982

2417919[Artists and the Hamptons], 1998

2417922"The Arts of Joseph Cornell," circa 1975

2417925"As I Was Saying" (Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd), 1982

2417928"As the Silkworm Produces," 1995

2417931"Aspects of Modernism," circa 2000

2417934"Attitudes toward Abstract Painting in the Seventies," 1978

2417937"Attitudes toward Contemporary Art," circa 1960

2417946"Autobiographical Sketch for World Authors," 1988

2417949"Back to Sentience" (Hugh O'Donnell), 1990

2417952"Joan Banach through a Glass Darkly," circa 2009

2417955"Banners," circa 1970

2417958[Rudolph Baranik], 1988

2417961"Barcelo," 2003

2417964"Carlo Battaglia," 1980

2417967"Baudelaire Irremediable Modern," 1992

2417970"Romare Bearden," 1981

2417973"Being with (or against) Picasso," circa 1980

2417976"La Belle Noiseuse According to Jacques Rivette," 1991

2417979"Jake Berthot's Order," 1982

2417982"Between Geometry and Gesture...Somewhere," 1990

2417985"Al Blaustien," 2010

2417988"Pierrette Bloch," 2009

2417991[Bonevardi], 1995

2417994"Richard Parkes Bonington," 1991

2417997"Power Boothe's Gait," 1981

2418003[Borges], 1989

2418006"Brancusi, Man of Principle," circa 1980

2418009"Eugene Brodsky," 1985

2418012"James Brooks," 2001

2418015"Cecily Brown En Route," 2008

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2418018"Earle Brown's Continuum," 1981

2418021[John Cage], 1986

2418024"Can Art Survive as Carnival?," 1977

2418030"Nicholas Carone," 2012-2013

2418033Catalog Essay for Abstract Painting, 1960-1969 (1983) Exhibition at ProjectStudio One (P.S.1), 1982

2418036Catalog Essay for Albuquerque '50s (1989) Exhibition, 1989

2418042Catalog Essay for L'Aventure géométrique et cinétique (1984) Exhibition, 1984

2418045Catalog Essay for Picasso in the Age of Iron (1993), 1993

2418138Catalog Essay for Posters Exhibition, 1978

2418141Catalog Introduction to Queens Museum Annual Juried Exhibition, 1982

2418144"Blais Cendrars: Skeins, Cross-lines, and Disorder or Allow Me to Digress...,"2009

2418150"The Center Has a Center," 2000

2418156"The Chambered Nautilus in Modern Art," circa 1970

2418159"Michelle Charles," 2008

2418165"Chermayeff's Collages," 1995

2418168"Martin Chirino," 1979

2418171"Martin Chirino," 1994

2418177"Cobra in Context," circa 1978

2418180"The Coincidence of the Arts," circa 1970

2418183"Colla," 1986

2418186"Common Ground," 1998

2418189"Concerning Chinampa and Other Factual and Fictional Matters," 1997

2418192[Joseph Cornell], 1983

2418195A Joseph Cornell Album, circa 1974-1977

2418198"Counteractions," 2000

2418201"Critical Attitudes," circa 1980

2418204"Critical Attitudes toward Contemporary Art," circa 1970

2418207[Critics] for Avenue, 1982

2418213"Cultural Soundings in France: New Cultural Policy," 1983-1984

2418222"Nassos Daphnis," 1990

2418228"Allan D'Archangelo's American Landscape," 1979

2418231"Alan Davie," 1984

2418234[Stuart Davis], circa 1990

2418237"Davis and Gorky," 1979

2418240"Peter de Francia: Drawings," 2007

2418243"Elaine [Fried] and Bill [de Kooning]," 1993

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2418246[De Kooning for MOCA Los Angeles], 2002

2418261Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art, circa 1990

2418270"Jose de Rivera," 1980

2418282"Stephen de Staebler," 1984

2418285"Stephen de Staebler," circa 1998

2418291[Stephen de Staebler], 2006

2418294"Fernando de Szyszlo," 1994

2418303"Michael di Canio," circa 1990

2418306"Richard Diebenkorn," 1981

2418312[H. J. Diehl], 1985

2418315[Dr. Wilder, Pour le Sport], 1985

2418321"Does Invidiousness Go with the Territory?," 2008

2418327"Maria Dompè," 1992

2418330"Tom Doyle," 2010-2011

2418333"Jean Dubuffet: The Culture of Anti-Culture," 1983

2418342"Edward Dugmore," 1991

2418345"Dürer's Melancholia," circa 2005

2418348Encyclopedia Entries, 1990-1993

2418369"Helen Escobedo," circa 2001

2418378"The Eternal Returns Are Not yet Tallied," circa 1980

2418390"Every Grain of Sand...Notes from a Visit to Nicaragua," 1988

2418399"Expressionism," circa 1960

2418405A Fable of Modern Art, circa 1980

2418417"Manuel Felguérez and His Formas-Ideas," 2009

2418420"The Finesse of Richard Diebenkorn," 1985

2418426"Foraging," 1996

2418438"The Force That Drives the Water through the Rocks," 1997

2418444[Forward, Criticism], circa 1960

2418450Forward to Nivasio Dolcemare by Alberto Savinio, 1987

2418453Forward to Motherwell Book, 1994-1995

2418456Forward to Rainer Maria Rilke Book, 1995

2418459[Andrew Forge], 1989

2418462[Andrew Forge], 2002

2418465"Cornelia Foss," 2001

2418468"The Free Hand," 2006

2418471"From Symbol to Symbolism," 1981

2418474"From USLA's Chairman" (U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American PoliticalPrisoners), 1981

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2418501[Fuentes and Nissen], 1993

2418507"Further Thoughts of a Bemused Tourist About Curtis Anderson," 1999

2418510"Charles Gagnon's Point of View," 1979

2418513"The Gaiety of Disorder: Picasso's Life in the Studio," circa 2002

2418519"Yves Gaucher at the New York Cultural Center," 1975

2418525"Anna Bella Geiger," 1993

2418528"Herbert George: Spaceholds in 1975, and Walking...," 1976

2418531"Germinations: The Drawings of Philip Guston," 1988

2418537"Gunther Gerzso," 1984

2418555"Giacometti Hic et Nunc," 1993

2418558[Sam Gilliam], 1993

2418561"Sam Gilliam, Mars at Angles," 1993

2418564"Grand Hotel," 1998

2418567"The Great Misunderstanding: That Is Not What I Meant at All" (Guston)," 1988

2418570"El Greco of Toledo," 1982

2418573"El Greco was an Intellectual!," 2001

2418576[Gropius], circa 1960

2418579[Hans Haacke, Museum Exhibitions], 1992

2418582"Dimitri Hadzi," 1989

2418585"Susan Hartnett," circa 2001

2418588[Al Held], 1989

2418597"Homage to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler," 1985

2418600"The Home Show," 1988

2418606"Humanism," 1962

2418609"René Huyghe," 1992

2418612"If the Lines and Forms Rhyme...," 2011

2418615"Implications of Nationalism for Abstract Expressionism," circa 2006

2418618"An Impromptu for David Medalla and Guy Brett," 1994

2418621"Inside the Studio," circa 1999

2418627[Introduction, 37 Artists, UNESCO], 1993-1994

2418633Introduction to Around Jackson Pollock Catalog, 1979-1980

2418636"Introduction to the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Inc.," circa 1970

2418639Introduction to Guston Book, 2006-2007

2418642Introduction to Israeli and Palestinian Works Exhibit, 1988

2418645Introduction, Landauer, San Francisco Abstract Expressionism, 1994

2418648Introduction to Motherwell Book, circa 2009

2418651Introduction to Motherwell on Rothko Exhibit in France, 2004

2418654"Introduction to Picasso Chapter," circa 1980

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2418663Introduction to Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1983

2418666Introduction to William Seitz Book, 1982

2418669Introduction to Kees Welden Book, 1994

2418672Introductory Note for Picasso Exhibition at Guggenheim, 1985

2418678"Irony in Contemporary Painting," circa 1960

2418681"Alfredo Jaar," 1986

2418684[Jasper Johns], 1991

2418687"Lester Johnson's Strolling Players," 1982

2418690"Reuben Kadish, Man of Substance," 1992

2418693"Tobi Kahn's Matter and Memory," 1996

2418699[Kandinsky], circa 1970

2418702"Ellsworth Kelly's Venture," 1996

2418708"Vera Klement's Paintings," 1983-1984

2418711"Vera Klement'," 1986

2418714"Kline as He Was and Is'," 2003

2418717"Harry Kramer, Stroke by Stroke," circa 2006

2418720"Irving Kriesberg," 1978

2418723"Kunitz and the Painters," 1985

2418729"The Landscape in Modern Painting," circa 1960

2418732[Latin American Art], 1993

2418738"Michael Lekakis," 1984

2418741A Letter to the Editor of the Brooklyn Rail, circa 2009

2418744[Richard Lindner], 1986

2418753"A Little Yes and a Big No?," 2012

2418756"L'Oeil Sauvage N'est Pas Aveugle," circa 2000

2418759"The Long and Short of It," Essay for Exhibition at Ohio State Wexner Center,1989

2418762"Morris Louis," 1989

2418765"The Lyrical Principle, Joan Mitchell," 2008

2418768"Lyracism in Abstract Art," circa 1960

2418774"Magnelli's Later Work," 1988

2418777"Mahagonny," 1989

2418780"Bernard Maisner," 1992

2418783"Major Directions in 20th Century Art," circa 1970

2418786"Marca-Relli," 1990

2418792"Marginal Notes on Alfredo Jaar's Muxima," circa 2006

2418795"Agnes Martin and Nature," circa 1975

2418801"Kenneth Martin," 1979

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2418804[Robert Mason], 1986

2418807"Mathieu and the Others," 2002

2418810[Matisse and American Artists], 1985

2418816"A Media Event (Pardon My Grammar)," 1989

2418825"Mark Mennin," 1993

2418828"The Message of the Avant-garde," 1955

2418831"Messagier, the 1950s and 1960s," 1981

2418837[Mexico], 2005

2418843"Mexican Art of the Twentieth Century," 1990

2418846"Migratory Passing," 1995

2418849"Millares," circa 1992

2418852[Joan Mitchell], circa 1995

2418855"Shin Miyazaki," circa 2000

2418858"Modernism in American Art," 2009

2418861"More Than One Class of Voters," 1999

2418864"Robert Motherwell," 1988

2418867[Motherwell Eulogy?], 1991

2418870"Robert Motherwell," 2006

2418873"Mummy and Flummy in Venice," 1985

2418894"Edvard Munch and America," 2000

2418897"Muntadas," 1990

2418900"The Museum of Modern Art's Drawing Collection," circa 1980

2418903"Museums, Paris-New York and Other Things," circa 1977

2418915"Music and the Visual Arts," 1983

2418918"Musings About Marisol," 2012-2013

2418921"Naoto Nakagawa," 1991

2418924[New York], circa 1986

2418927"The New York Art World Since 1945," circa 1982

2418930[New York Exodus], circa 1970

2418933[New York School], circa 2000

2418936"The New York School," 2005

2418939"Brian Nissen," 1981

2418942[Nissen], 1984

2418945"Nivola," 1995

2418948"No More Than an Accident?" (Jewish Critical Inquiry), circa 1975

2418957"No Way to be Mortified" (Morton Feldman), 2009

2418960"Noguchi," 1983

2418963"Isamu Noguchi," 1991

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2418966"Noguchi," circa 2000

2418972"Notes on Apprehending the City," circa 1980

2418975"Nothing is Preordained..." (Daniel Barrett Ben-Schmuel), 1990

2418978[Objectivity in Modern Painting], circa 1970

2418981"Hugh O'Donnell," 2002

2418984"Nathan Oliveira," circa 2004

2418987[On Abstraction], 1992

2418990[On Biographies], 1995

2418993"On Criticism and the Third World," 1989

2418996"On Motherwell," 1983

2419002"On the One Hand..." (Carl Frederik Reuterswärd), 1993

2419005"On the One Hand and On the Other" (Jewish Art), 1982

2419008"On the Theme of the Artist and His Public," 1981

2419011"One Foot In and One Foot Out" (Rauschenberg), 1997

2419017"The Other Symbolist Inheritance in Painting," circa 1980

2419020"Painting Toward: The Art of John McLaughlin," 1979

2419023"Pandemonium at MoMA," 1984

2419026"The Parables of Tàpies," 2006

2419029"Parallel Worlds: Guston as Reader," 2002

2419032"Harold Paris," 1994

2419035"Paris-Berlin: Rapports and Contrasts from 1900-1933," 1978

2419038"Paris Publicized and Privatized," circa 1970

2419041"Perceiving the Clay Figure," 1981

2419044"The Phantom Landscape in 20th Century Art," 1993

2419047"Philosopher or Dog?," circa 1975

2419050"Photographs by Tad Mike," circa 2004

2419053[Picasso], circa 1980

2419062"Picasso Our Contemporary: Notes on the Works of the Last Years," 1983

2419065"Picasso as Humanist," circa 1990

2419068"Picasso's Presence," 2002

2419071"A Poet's Work is Never...," 1992

2419095"Fernando Garcia Ponce," 1992

2419101[Stephen Posen Essays], 2006

2419104[Richard Pousette-Dart], 1990

2419107Preface to Ad Reinhardt Book, 2006

2419110[Prelude, Chris Jennings], 2001

2419113"The Question of Crafts," 1984

2419116"Quests and Questions," 1991

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2419119[Man Ray], 1988

2419122"Recent Non-Object Painting in the United States," 1972

2419128"Recent Paintings by Jack Stuppin," 2010

2419131"Recollections, Not Without Nostalgia, of the Rue du Four," 1999

2419134"Reflections on Jake Berthot's Reflections," 2010

2419137"Jesse Reichek," circa 2004

2419140"Remembering Nivola," 1998

2419143"David Remfry's Dancers," 2002

2419146"Deborah Remington," 1983

2419149"Responses to Crisis in American Art," 1969

2419152"A Response to Philip Guston's New Paintings," 1979

2419158"Rome, Imperium Sine Fine? (Dominion Without Limits?)," 2011

2419164Reviews of Books, circa 1969-2000

2419167Reviews of Exhibitions, 1957-2010

2419170Reviews of Exhibitions for Masde Arte Website, 2002-2004

2419173"Rilke," circa 1970

2419176"Harold Rosenberg," circa 1978

2419182"Mark Rothko and Abstract Expressionism," 1998

2419188"Rothko, A Man of Valences," 1990-1991

2419191"Paul Rotterdam," circa 1980

2419194[Paul Rotterdam, Vienna], 1989

2419200"Paul Rotterdam's Drawings," 1994

2419203[George Salles], circa 1960

2419206[Juan Sanchez], circa 1994-1997

2419212"Arnold Schoenberg's Ascent (Chapter V)," circa 1970

2419215"Toti Scialoja," 1991

2419218"William Scott," 2003

2419221"Sculpture on the Edge of Dreams" (Tony Smith), 1982

2419227"The Search for Whom?" (Alexander), circa 1980

2419230"The Seasons of Granet," 1988

2419233[Second Biennial of Havana], 1986-1987

2419236[Roger Shattuck and Patricia Lambert], 1988

2419239"Robert Slutsky," circa 1978

2419242"David Smith," circa 2000

2419245"David Smith and Robert Motherwell," circa 1980

2419251"Solman," 1995

2419254"Some Perplexed Ideas at the End of the Century," 1992-1994

2419257"Stamos," 1983

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2419260"Stamos," circa 2006

2419263"Hedda Sterne," 1984

2419266"Hedda Sterne," 1998

2419269"Still Others: The Third Biennial of Havana," 1989

2419272"The Store" (Oldenburg), 1989

2419275"A Straggler's View of Gorky," 1992-1996

2419278"Surrealism and Latin America," 1993

2419281"The Symbolist Legacy: Modern Painting," circa 1970

2419287"Pierre Tal-Coat: 'I Presume Nothing'," 1985

2419299"Antoni Tàpies," 1995

2419302"Hiroshi Teshigahara," 2007

2419305"Thinking about Gandy Brodie," 1984

2419308"Thinking Jewish Modernity," 2010

2419311"Thirteen Canadian Artists," 1974

2419314"This is No Laughing Matter," 1995

2419317"Thoughts about Dan Budnick," 2010

2419320"Thoughts on the Oeuvre of Martin Chirino," circa 2002

2419326"Titian, a Man for Painting," 1998

2419329"Gérard Titus-Carmel: Prints and Poems," 2001

2419332"Transatlantic Drifts," 1991

2419335"Traduttore Traditore," circa 2008

2419338"William Tucker's Gyre," 1979

2419341"William Tucker," 1988

2419344"William Tucker's Aspiration," 1986

2419347"William Tucker for Henry Moore Institute Handbook," circa 2002

2419350[Tunga, Jaar, Bedia], 1993

2419353"A Tuning Fork of the Times," 1997

2419356"Two Responses to the Unspeakable," 1997, 2001

2419359"Varieties of Theatrical Experience," 1984

2419365"Vedere e Pensare (É Imaginare)," 2002

2419368"The Voice of the Whirlwind," circa 1970

2419371"Ursula von Rydingsvard," 1995-1996

2419374"John Walker's New Paintings," 1976

2419380[John Walker], circa 1985

2419383"John Walker," 1991

2419386[John Walker], 2009

2419389"The Walls of the Heart: David Rankin's Life and Work," circa 2012

2419392"Was This Angel Necessary?," circa 2002

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2419395"Susan Weil," circa 2004

2419398"Michael (Corinne) West," 1999

2419401"Westbeth Endures," 2007

2419404"What I Draw Is Drawing," circa 2002

2419407"The What and Why of Abstract Expressionism," circa 1960

2419413"What's New (and What's Old) in Mexico," circa 1980

2419416"What's So American about American Art?," 1988

2419419"Where the Deer and the Antelope Play...," 1984

2419422"Which Way Is Up?," 1990

2419425"Who Are All These Fellows Populating the Name of Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd?,"1978

2419428"William Williams," 1977

2419431"Christopher Wilmarth's Gnomic Sculpture," 1980

2419437[Christopher Wilmarth], 2003

2419440"With but a Single Kelle One Can Make Tea," 1998

2419443[Stephen Wolpe], 2003

2419446[Women and Writing], 1989

2419449"Woodcuts in Color" (Master's Thesis, Harvard), circa 1950

2419452"Writing of the Disaster," 2002

2419455"...y los sueños sueños son" (Armondo Morales Catalog Essay), 1986

2419458"The Yellow Soundby Kandinsky," 1982

2419461"Jack Youngerman," circa 1996

2419464[Jack Youngerman], 2003

2419467Art International Articles, 1988

2419470Arts Magazine Articles, 1977-1987

2419473Arts and Architecture Articles, 1960-1965

2419482Arts Canada Articles, 1979-1980

2419485Revista de la Universidad de Mexico Articles, 1983-1984

2419488Articles in Other Publications, circa 1960-2005

2419491Fragments, circa 1960-2010

8.3.22417526: Lectures, circa 1960-20082419515"20th Century Sculptural Speculations," circa 1975

2419518Abstract Expressionism, circa 2005

2419524"Abstract Expressionism, Watercolor," University of Kansas, 1994

2419521"Against the Grain," 2000

2419530American Psychological Society, 1979

2419533Art and Literature Series, New York Studio School, 1981

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2419536"Art and Social Change," circa 1980

2419539"Artists and Politics, Politics and Art," circa 1970

2419545Ronald Bladen Panel, Sculpture Center, New York City, 1996

2419551"Cezanne and His Temperment," circa 1995

2419557Chance Seminar, 2004-2005

2419563"Cocteau Sublime Godfly," University of California, Irvine, 1989

2419569"Collage for Ray Johnson Show at Pollock Krasner House," 2003

2419572Commencement Address, Portland School of Art, 1985

2419575Commencement Address, 2002

2419578Columbia University, circa 1980

2419590Joseph Cornell, circa 1980

2419593"Crossroads of American Sculpture," Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2000

2419596Diderot, circa 1980

2419599"The End of the New York School--And All Other Schools," circa 1965

2419602"Fin de Siècle Blues: Issues of Postmodernism," 1987

2419614Arshile Gorky, University of Virginia Art Museum, 2007

2419617Philip Guston, circa 1990

2419620Philip Guston, 2000

2419623"Has the Center Held?," 2002-2004

2419626"Implications of Nationalism in Abstract Expressionism," circa 2003

2419629"Influence or Confluence?" Museo del Prado, 2005-2007

2419635Louis Kahn, Pratt Institute, 1973, circa 2000

2419638Landscape, Museo de Prado, 1993

2419641Latin American Art, Texas Symposium, 1984

2419644Morris Louis, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 2008

2419650"Mexico: Inside, Outside," 1988

2419653Modernism, Columbia University, circa 1976

2419677Modernism, Santa Fe, circa 2000

2419683The New York School, University of Washington, circa 2008

2419686"Notes from a Specialized Tourist," Museum of New Mexico, 1987

2419689Nude Lecture, Museo del Prado, circa 1960-1997

2419692"One the Current Situations in the Visual Arts," Brown University, 1966

2419695"On the Theme of the Artist and His Public," 1980

2419698"Painting Endures," Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971

2419701"Picasso and the Studio," 1996

2419704Postmodernism, 1984-1987

2419707Primitivism, Museum of Modern Art, 1984

2419710Quality in Art?" Miami Beach, 1961

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2419713"Responses to Crisis in American Art," circa 1965

2419716Mark Rothko, circa 1982

2419719"Roundtrip" (Jorge Luis Borges), 1986

2419722"Shibboleths, Dubious Critical Approaches, and No Guides for the Perplexed,"North Dakota Museum of Art, 1996

2419725Space, 1996

2419728"Strange Times, Strange Spaces," circa 2001

2419731Testimonies, Madrid, circa 2000

2419734"What is Good Painting: Who Knows?," circa 1999

2419737"Women and Writing," Seminar in Palermo, 1987-1988

8.3.32417529: Notes and Notebooks, circa 1957-20112419740Note Cards, circa 2002

2419743Scattered Notes, circa 1960-2000

2419746Notebook, "Spain, Motherwell," undated

2419752Notebook, "Wyoming," undated

2419755Notebook, "London and Yorkshire," undated

2419758Notebooks (17), undated

2419761Notebook, 1957

2419764Notebook, "Italian Word Book," circa 1961

2419767Notebook, "Research," circa 1961

2419770Notebook, "Roma, Paris, Amsterdam," 1977

2419773Notebook, "Mexico," 1978

2419776Notebook, "Greece, Mexico," 1980

2419779Notebook, 1981

2419782Notebook, "Rome and Spain," 1982

2419785Notebook, 1982

2419791Notebook, 'Rotterdam," 1985

2419794Notebook, 'Vienna," 1985

2419800Notebook, "Cuba," 1986

2419809Notebook, "Germany," 1987

2419815Notebook, "Milano, Berlin," 1987

2419818Notebook, circa 1987

2419824Notebook, "Italy, Holland," 1988

2419830Notebook, "Moscow, Suzdal," 1989

2419833Notebook, "USSR," circa 1989

2419839Notebooks (2), circa 1990

2419845Notebook, "Brazil," 1991

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2419848Notebook, "France, England," 1991

2419851Notebook, "Nov," 1991

2419857Notebook, "Paris and Spain," 1992

2419860Notebook, 1992

2419863Notebook, "Spain," 1993

2419869Notebook, "Mexico, San Miguel," 1994

2419872Notebook, "Italy," 1995

2419875Notebook, "Venezia, Barcelona, Copenhagen," 1996

2419881Notebook, 1996

2419884Notebook, "London, Paris," 1997

2419887Notebook, "Japan," 1997

2419893Notebook, "Las Palmas, Paris," 1999

2419896Notebook, "Spain," 1999

2419899Notebook, "Rome, Las Palmas," 2001

2419902Notebook, "Zurich, Paris," 2001

2419908Notebook, "Paris," 2002

2419911Notebook, "Barcelona," 2008

2419917Notebook, "Venice," 2008

2419920Notebook, Stockholm, 2011

8.3.42417532: Diaries, 1947-20082419938Diary, 1947-1953

2757322Diary, 1954-1955

2480480Diary, 1957-1958

2419944Diary, 1958-1959

2419947Diary, 1959-1960

2419989Diary, "Turkey" (disbound), 1968-1971

2419992Diary, 1969-1971

2419995Diary (loose pages mixed with correspondence and ephemera), 1970s-1980s

2419998Diary, 1995-1996

2420001Diary, 2003-2008

8.3.52417535: Writings by Others, circa 1954-20102420004Fred Licht, "The Deposit," undated

2420007Fred Licht, "Introduction," undated

2420010Fred Licht, "How We Started from Scratch and Returned to Normal," circa 1985

2420013Fred Licht, "Sainty Sancho," 2010

2420016Writings by Friends, 1954-1999

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2420019Unidentified Writings, circa 1970

8.42417502: Writing Project and Subject Files, circa 1950-2012

12.3 linear Feet; Box 25-37, OV 41

Writing project and subject files date from circa 1950-2012 and encompass a large collection of alphabetical filespertaining to a wide variety of people including artists, actors, writers, thinkers, and collaborators; work projectsincluding writings, exhibitions, panels, symposia, and lecture series; as well as various other subjects and topics.Many of the files contain research compiled for a vast number of writing projects including books, articles, andcatalog essays. Included in this large assortment of files are manuscripts, notes, correspondence, photographicmaterial, clippings, postcards, exhibitions catalogs and announcements, articles, brochures, and press releases. Filesfor Valerio Adami, Jake Berthot, Stephen de Staebler, Robert Israel, Robert Motherwell, and Octavio Paz containmany items of correspondence with the individual. The grouping of files related to Robert Motherwell document anumber of projects Ashton completed on the artist, including exhibitions and books Robert Motherwell (1983) andThe Writings of Robert Motherwell (2007).

2420022A Rebours, La Rebelion Informalista (1999) Exhibition, circa 1999

2420025Abstract Expressionism, circa 1995

2420028Adami, Valerio, 1984-2007

2420031American Art after 1945, circa 1950-1988

2420034American Art Groups, circa 1970-2002

2420037American Wars, 2010-2011

2420040Appel, Karel, 2004

2420043Architects and Architecture, 1969-2006

2420046Archives of American Art, 2007-2011

2420049Art in 1930s, 1960s

2420052Art History of the Theatre, Program Proposal, 1972

2420055Art and Politics, 1971-2002

2420058Art and Science, 1995-1996

2420064Art in Society, 1957-1969

2420061Art and Sociology, circa 1970-1990

2420067Art and Technology, circa 1965-1995

2420073Art and War, 2003-2004

2422241Article Ideas, 1970s

2420079Avanti Group, 1963-1964

2420082Avedon, Richard, 1970-1980

2420085A, General, 1971-2008

2420088Ballet, circa 1970

2420091Banach, Joan, 2008-2009

2420094Baranik, Rudolph, 1984-2000

2420100Barceló, Miquel, 2004-2009

2420103Baudelaire, Charles, circa 1980-1992

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2420109Beckman, Max, 1959-2000

2420115Berlin-New York Article, 1965-1966

2420118Berman, Marshall, circa 1980

2420121Berthot, Jake, 1973-2013

2420124Bibliography, circa 1965-1970

2420127Black Artists, circa 1977-1998

2420133Bloch, Pierrette, 2009

2420136Bonevardi, Marcelo, 1979-1980

2420142Bontecou, Lee, circa 2011

2420148Boothe, Power, 1974-1992

2420151Borges, Jacobo, 1998

2420154Brancusi, Constantin, circa 1965-2004

2420157Brazil, 1984-1992

2420160Brain Related Articles, 1950s-2005

2420163Bresdin, Rodolphe, circa 1952

2420166British Art, 1997

2420169Brodie, Gandy, 1965-1983

2420172Brodsky, Eugene, 1982-1990

2420175Broida Collection, 1995

2420178Broodthaers, Marcel, 1993

2420181Brown, Cecily, 2007-2008

2420184Bui, Phong, circa 2005

2420187Burckhardt, Rudy, 1993

2420190Bury, Pol, circa 1960-1970

2420262B, General, 1967-2010

2422133C D S Gallery, Artists Choose Artists (1982) Exhibition, 1981-1982

2420265Cage, John, 1967, 1990

2420268Calas, Nicholas, 1976-1989

2420271Calder, Alexander, circa 1980-2000

2420274Caracas, Venezuela Assignment, 1979-1983

2420277Carra, Carlo, 1982

2420280Cendrars, Blaise, 1961

2420304Central America, Artists Against U.S. Intervention, 1983-1984

2420307Centre Pompidou, 1994

2420310Cézanne, Paul, 1980-1983

2420313Charles, Michelle, circa 2008

2420316Chile, 1973-1993

2420319Chile, Museo de la Solidaridad, 1972-1974, 2012

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2420322Chinese Art, 2007

2420325Chirino, Martin, 2002

2420328Christo, Jean-Claude, 1984

2420331Cocteau, Jean, circa 1980-1985

2420334"Contemporáneos: Artists and Writers of Mexico from 1900 to 1929," ExhibitionProposal, circa 2001

2420337Cornell, Joseph, 1974-2010

2420340Corris, Michael, 2001-2009

2420343Craven, David, circa 1992-2000

2420346The Critical Essay, circa 2007

2420349Criticism, circa 1967-1994

2420352Critiques, Lecture Series at the Cooper Union, 1973-1993

2420355Cuba and Cuban Art, 1981-2000

2420358Czechoslovak Art, 1988

2420361C, General, 1972-2009

2420364Dada, Pop Art, 1966

2420367Dance and Theater, circa 1965-1995

2420370Davis, Gene; Morris Louis, and Elizabeth Murray, 1976-1996

2420376De Chirico, Giorgio, 2008

2420385De Francia, Peter, 2006-2007

2420391De Kooning, Willem, circa 1960-2011

2420397Derain, André, circa 1959

2420400De Staebler, Stephen, circa 1970-2006

2420406Diebenkorn, Richard, 1964-1994

2420409Dix, Otto, circa 1962

2420418Dlugoszewski, Lucia, circa 1999

2420421Dompé, Maria, 1992

2420424Dorazio, Piero, 1957

2420427Drawing, 2005-2007

2420430Dubrow, John, 2008

2420433Düsseldorf Exhibition Catalog, 1970s

2420436Dubuffet, Jean, 1959-1979

2420439Duchamp, Marcel, 1972-2001

2420442D, General, circa 1960-2008

2420445Editorial Ideas, circa 1990-2010

2420448El Salvador Intercambios, 1994

2420451Ernest, Max, circa 1980-1985

2420454Exter, Alexandra, circa 1970

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2420457E, General, circa 1950-2009

2420460Fascism, 1998-2006

2420463Feldman, Morton, 1965-2007

2420466Felguérez, Manuel, 2009

2420469Feminist Art, 1988-1998

2420475Film, 1973-1999

2420481Forge, Andrew, 2000-2003

2420484Formalism, circa 2000

2420487France, 1980s

2420490French Art, 1965-1994

2420493F, General, circa 1967-2010

2420499Gallardo, Carlos, 1994-2003

2420502Gauguin, Paul, 2004

2420505George, Herbert, 1972-2005

2420508German Art, 1984-2009

2420511German Democratic Republic Artists, 1985-1988

2420514Germany, 1988-1990

2420517Gerzso, Gunther, 1975-1991

2420520Gorky, Arshile, circa 1970-2002

2420526Graham, John, circa 1969

2420532El Greco, circa 1982

2420535Greene, Stephen, 1978-2008

2420541Group Shows, circa 1965-2003

2420547Guerrero, José, circa 1960-1998

2420550Guidieri, Remo, circa 1990-2009

2420553Guston, Philip, 1974-2010

2420556Gussow, Sue Ferguson, 2009

2420559G, General, circa 1980-2007

2420562Harris, Anne, 1997

2420613Hartnett, Susan, 2002-2010

2420616Held, Al, 1983-2002

2420625History, 1993-1994

2420628Hollingsworth, Christopher, 2006

2420634Holography, 1978-1988

2420637Hurley, Denzil, 1993-2004

2420643H, General, circa 1965-2003

2420649Icaro, Paolo, 1986-1988

2420658Images of Artworks, 1970s

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Oversized items housed in OV 41

2420664Independent Curators Incorporated, Music and Exhibition Proposal, 1979

2420670Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, circa 1948-1950

2420673Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Exhibition, circa 1975

2420679Institutions, 1976-1980

2420688Interviews and Notes on Artists, circa 1960Artists include Crampton, Davie, Glarner, Hepworth, Johnson, Kunitz, Ragon, Sandberg,and Vicente

2420715Ishiguro, Hidé, 1996-2010

2420718Israel, Robert, 1970s

2420721Israel, Robert, Mahagonny, 1970s

2420724Israeli Art, 1992-2002

2420727Israeli-Palestinian Art Exhibit, 1988

2420730Italian Art, circa 1986-1991

2420733I, General, 1956-2000

2420736Jaar, Alfredo, circa 1990-2005

2420739Jacobs, Richard, 1991-1995

2420742Japanese Art, 2002

2420745Jeannet, Frédéric-Yves, circa 2005

2420748Jennings, Chris, 1997-2001

2420751Jewish Art and the Holocaust, circa 1951-2003

2420754Jewish Modernity, circa 1995-2010

2420757Johns, Jasper, 1991-2007

2420760J, General, 2009

2420763Kabakov, Ilya, circa 1991

2420766Kadish, Reuben, Art Foundation, 1998

2420769Kafka Proposal, 1981-1985

2420772Kandinsky, Wassily, 1973-1991

2420775Katan, Roger, circa 2007

2420778Katz, Leandro, 1984-1998

2420781Kawamata Project, 1982-1993

2420784Kees, Welden, circa 1950-1980

2420787Kinetics, Light, and Technology, circa 1970

2420790Klee, Paul, 1978-2001

2420793Kline, Franz, circa 1960-2005

2420796Kohn, Jerry (on Plato and Nietzsche), circa 2008

2420799Komar and Melamid, 1994

2420802Korean Art, 1959

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2420805Krasner, Lee, 1969

2420808K, General, 1975-2013

2420811"La Politique Culturelle," 1981-1985

2420817Las Palmas, Spain, Project, circa 1958-2000

2420826Latin America and Arts, circa 1970-1992

2420832"Latin Media Arts" Symposium, circa 1992

2420838Lázaro, Eusebio, circa 2003-2012

2420841Lears, Jackson and Karen Parker, circa 2006-2010

2420844Lebron, Michael, 1993-1994

2420847Levin, Marc Albert, circa 2005

2420853Levitan, Israel, 1990

2420859Lindner, Richard, circa 1960-1980

2420871Linguistics and Structuralism, 1960s

2420877The Living Theatre, circa 1985-1986

2420883L, General, circa 1985-2010

2420886Machine Art Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, circa 1969

2420892Magic and Strong Medicine (1973), Liverpool Exhibition, 1972-1975

2420895Magnelli, Alberto, circa 1988

2420898Magritte, René, 1959-1992

2420901Mais, Hilarie, 1994

2420904Maisner, Bernard, 1988-1997

2420907Marcuse, Herbert, circa 1970

2420910Marden, Brice, circa 1965-1975

2420913Mallarmé, Stéphane, circa 1977-1999

2420916Mason, Robert, 1979-1985

2420919Mastretta, Fernando, circa 2007

2420922Mathieu, Georges, 2002

2420925Matisse, Henri, circa 1966-1995

2420928Mayner, Bill, 1994

2420931Medalla, David, 1993-1994

2420934Media, 1996

2420937Megged, Matti, circa 1980-2010

2420940Metaphor, 1995-2003

2420943Mexican Art, circa 1980-2007

2420946Miller, Nachume, circa 1996

2420949Miró, Joan, 1960s

2420952Mitchell, Joan, 1957-2010

2420955Modernism, circa 1960-2008

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2420982Modigliani, Amedeo, 1966

2420958Motherwell, Robert

2420961Exhibition Files, 1973-1975

2420964Exhibition Files, Caracas, circa 1979

2420967Exhibition Files, Etchings and Drawings, 1987-1988

2420973Exhibition Files, Barcelona, 1990s

2420979Correspondence, 1963-1982Includes many letters from Motherwell and one from Helen Frankenthaler

2420985Film Project, 1988

2420988Copies of Writing and Correspondence from Motherwell Archive,1950s-1980s

2420991Photographic and Printed Material, 1970s-1990s

2420994Writings and Notes, 1960s-1990s

2421000Multiculturalism, 1991

2421006Museo del Barrio, 2003-2004

2421012Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), circa 1968, 2004

2421018Music, circa 1965-2006

2421021"Music and Visual Arts Project," circa 1965-2006

2421024M, General, 1960s-2000sOversized items housed in OV 41

2421027Nakagawa, Naoto, 1991-2008

2421042Neo Dada, circa 1999

2421048The New Museum, 1984-1994

2421051The New York School, Contracts and Reviews, 1972-1977

2421054Newman, Barnett, 1946-1968

2421057Nicaragua, Correspondence and Writing, 1984-1989

2421060Nicaragua, Printed Material, circa 1980-2001

2421063Nissen, Brian, 1997-2001

2421066N, General, circa 1990-2005

2421069Old Masters, 1969

2421072P.E.N. American Center, 1982-1985

2421075Paalen, Wolfgang, circa 1944-1947

2421078Painting, circa 1970-1993

2421081Paley, Grace, 1987

2421084Parra, Catalina (Chilean Art), 1983-1991

2421087Paternosto, Cesar, circa 1980

2421090Paulhan, Jean, 1995-2004

2421093Paz, Octavio, circa 1958-2010

2421096Peace Exhibition, circa 1999

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2421099Pedrosa, Mario, circa 2012

2421102Persian Art, circa 1970

2421105Philosophy, Aesthetics, Poetry, circa 2002

2421108Photography, circa 1970-2009

2421111Picasso, Pablo, circa 1956-2010

2421114Poetry, circa 1960-2010

2421117Polish Art, circa 1993

2421120Political Cartoons, 1992-1994

2421123Pollock, Jackson, circa 1970-1998

2421126Ponsold, Renate, 1977-1988

2421129Pop Art, circa 1988-2001

2421132Porter, Liliana, 1990

2421138Posen, Stephen, circa 1978-1990

2421141Prague Symposium, 1991-1992

2421147"The Presence of Myth in Contemporary Life," Conference, 1983-1984

2421153Prussianism, 1970s

2421156P, General, circa 1980-2012

2421162The Question of Drawing (1988) Exhibition, 1988-1992

2421168Rankin, David, 2005-2009

2421174Reichek, Elaine, circa 1968

2421180Reuterswärd, Carl Fredrik, 1972-1994

2421183Roberts, John (postmodernism), 1997-2008

2421186Rodin, Auguste, circa 1960

2421189Rome, Italy (American Academy), circa 2010

2421195"Roots of Modern Art" Book Proposal, 1980

2421198Rosenberg, Harold, 1966-1969

2421201Rosso, Medaro, circa 1960

2421207Rothko, Mark, circa 1980-2005

2421210Rotterdam, Paul, 1975-1997

2421213Roud, Richard, circa 1989

2421216R, General, circa 1980-2013

2421219Saint Mark's Church, circa 1974-1980

2421222Sant'Elia, Antonio, Exhibition, circa 1985-1986

2421225Sant'Elia, Antonio, Exhibition, circa 1985-1986

2421228Sartre, Jean-Paul, circa 1980-1997

2421231Saura, Antonio, circa 1990-1999

2421234Schulman, Grace, 1980s

2421240Seligmann, Kurt, circa 1960-2004

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2421243September 11, 2001, 2001-2002

2421252Seven Sculptors in America (1984) Exhibition, 1977-1990

2421258Siqueiros, David Alfaro, circa 1980-1995

2421261Sites Magazine, 1980-1981

2421264Smith, David (and Sam Francis), circa 1980-1995

2421267Snow, Ed, circa 1983-1985

2421270Snyder, Joan, circa 1980

2421273Social Comment in America (1968) Exhibition, 1960s

2421276Social Protest Exhibition (Italian), 1978

2421279Society of Fellows, New York University, 1982-1986

2421282Spanish Art, 1957-2002

2421285Spiegelman, Art, 1991-1993

2421288Stable Gallery, 1954-1961

2421291Sterne, Hedda, circa 2000-2007

2421294"Stupidità Critica," 1988-1991

2421297Sybesma, Jetske, circa 2000

2421300Symbolism, circa 1980

2421303"Symbolism," International Colloquium, 1972-1973

2421306S, General, circa 1960-2011

2421309Terezin Memorial, Czech Republic, 1994

2421312Third World Art, 1990

2421315Titus-Carmel, Gérard, 1987-2009

2421318Tobey, Mark, 1986, 1989

2421321Torffield, Marvin, circa 1976-1977

2421324Tougaloo Art Collection, 1994

2421327Tsvetkov, Leonid, 2009

2421330Tunga, 1989-2002

2421333Tworkov, Jack, circa 1975-2000

2421336T, General, circa 1956-2010

2421339United States-USSR Exhibition, circa 1988

2421342Van Gogh, Vincent, circa 1990-1991

2421345Vater, Regina, circa 1970-1999

2421348Venezuela, 2006

2421351V, General, 1959-2000

2421354Walker, John, circa 1970-2010

2421357West Coast Art, circa 1968

2421360"What Are Museum for?" Panel, 2001

2421363Wiley, William, 2008

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2421366Wilmarth, Christopher, circa 1970-1995

2421369Wittenborn, George (copies of archival material at MoMA), 1950s

2421372Wolpe, Stephen, circa 1980-2005

2421375W, General, 1960-2010

2421378Y-Z, General, 1956-1999

2421647Oversized Images of Artwork from Box 30, Folder 10

2421644Oversized M, General from Box 33, Folder 19

8.52417505: Teaching Files, 1967-2013

0.7 linear Feet; Box 37-38

Teaching files date from 1967-2013 and contain administrative files, course materials, and lecture notes fromAshton's teaching appointments at the Copper Union, the New School for Social Research, and Yale University.Items include correspondence, memos, course reserves, assignments, and a large number of lecture notes organizedby subject or name of course.

2421387Cooper Union, Administrative Files, circa 1980-2008

2421390Cooper Union, Course Materials, circa 1980-2005

2421393Cooper Union, Lecture Notes

242139620th Century Art, circa 1998-2009

2421659Abstract Expressionism, circa 1995

2421399"American," circa 1990

2421402"Americans and Mexicans," circa 1980

2421405Art History, 2009

2421408Art and Politics, 2001-2004

2421411Baudelaire, circa 1980

2421414Bauhaus, circa 1980

2421417China, 1998

2421420Criticism, circa 1987-1996

2421423Cubism, circa 1980

2421426Dada, circa 1980

2421429De Stijl, circa 1980

2421432Europe, 1974, 2000-2003

2421435Futurism, circa 1990

2421440Germany, circa 2001

2421443Philip Guston, circa 2001

2421446Japan, circa 1990

2421449Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, circa 2008

2421452Klee and Kandinsky, circa 1984

2421455Matisse, circa 1990

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2421458"Motifs in Modernism," circa 1980

2421461"On History," circa 1985

2421464Performance and Installation, circa 1991

2421467Revolution, circa 1990

2421470Rimbaud, circa 1980

2421476Russia, 1980s-1990s

2421482Sartre, circa 1990

2421488Sculpture, 1998-1999

2421491Sources of Modern Art, 1989

2421494Synartesis, 1977-2006

2421500Upheaval, circa 1985

2421503Varèse, circa 1981

2421509General, 1980s-2000s

2421512The New School for Social Research, "Action and Reaction" Course, circa 1980

2421515The New School for Social Research, "The Artist in New York" Course, circa 1967

2421518The New School for Social Research, Courses, General, 1980s

2421521Yale University, circa 2000-2013

8.62417508: Printed Material, circa 1950-2012

0.3 linear Feet; Box 38

Printed material dates from circa 1950-2012 and consists of exhibition and lecture announcements, clippings relatedto Ashton's professional life, exhibition catalogs, postcards collected from travel and museums, and reviews ofAshton's books.

2421563Announcements, circa 1980-2012

2421566Clippings, circa 1960-2010

2421572Exhibition Catalogs, 1982-2000

2421578Postcards, 1950s-1980s

2421581Reviews, circa 1970-2000

8.72417511: Artwork and Sketchbooks, circa 1950-2000

0.3 linear Feet; Box 38

Artwork and seven sketchbooks by Dore Ashton are done in pencil, pen, and marker on paper. Loose sketchescontain many portraits and figure studies, some executed on the reverse side of printed pages. Sketchbooks capturescenes from travel, including landscapes, architecture, people, and hotel rooms. Artwork by others includes twopaintings on paper and one charcoal drawing by unidentified artists.

2421587Sketches, 1950s-1980s

2421590Sketchbook, 1955

2421593Sketchbook, 1956

2421596Sketchbook, circa 1980

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2421599Sketchbook, 1981

2421602Sketchbook, 1983

2421605Sketchbook, 1985

2421608Sketchbook, 1988

2421611Artwork by Others, 1970s-1990s

8.82417514: Photographic Material, circa 1928-2010

0.7 linear Feet; Box 38-40, OV 42

The photographic material contains hundreds of original photographs of Ashton throughout all stages of her life,many with friends and family. Ashton is also captured giving lectures, and at exhibitions and other professionalengagements. Several professional photographs of Ashton taken by a number of different photographers are here aswell. Loose pages of a fragile family album date from the 1940s and contain photographs pasted to paper with somewritten descriptions. A few of the photographs of artists and artwork are by Ashton, while the majority are copies ofportraits by professional photographers. Artists include Nathan Oliveira, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler,Jackson Pollock, Richard Lindner, and others. Travel photographs are of East Hampton, Europe, and sites in Francecommemorating artist Rosa Bonheur, the subject of Ashton's book, Rosa Bonheur: A Life and a Legend (1981). Thelast folder contains photographs given to Ashton. Formats are predominantly color and black and white prints, withfew negatives and slides (35mm).

2421614Dore Ashton. Family, and Friends, circa 1928-1950s

2421617Dore Ashton. Family, and Friends, 1928-1950s

2421620Dore Ashton. Family, and Friends, 1960s-1990s

2421623Dore Ashton, Family, and Friends, circa 2000-2010

2421626Dore Ashton, Professional Portraits, 1970s-2000sOversized items housed in OV 42

2421629Family Album (disbound), 1940s

2421632Artists, 1950s-1960s, 1990s

2421635Photographs of Artwork, 1960s-1990sOversized items housed in OV 42

2421638Travel, 1950s-1980s

2421641Photographs given to Ashton, circa 1951-1980Oversized items housed in OV 42

2421650Oversized Ashton Professional Portraits from Box 40, Folder 1

2421653Oversized Photographs of Artwork from Box 40, Folder 4

2421656Oversized Photographs given to Ashton from Box 40, Folder 6