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

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1 A Finding Aid to the Dore Ashton Papers, 1849, circa 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

2 Table of Contents Collection Overview... 1 Administrative Information...1 Biographical / Historical... 2 Scope and Contents... 2 Arrangement...3 Names and Subject Terms... 3 Series Descriptions/Container Listing : Biographical Material, , undated...5 2: Correspondence, , undated...5 3: Writings, , undated...9 4: Research files, 1849, , 2009, undated : Printed Materials, , undated : Artwork, 1949, 1953, 1982, undated : Photographs of Artwork, circa : Addition to the Dore Ashton Papers, circa

3 Collection Overview Repository: Creator: Title: Archives of American Art Ashton, Dore Dore Ashton papers Dates: 1849, circa , , Quantity: Abstract: Language: Language: 35.6 linear Feet The papers of Dore Ashton measure 35.6 linear feet and date from circa , with one letter in the Joseph Cornell subject file dating from The records document Dore Ashton's career as an art critic, historian and educator, with particular depth for the period of 1952 through The collection contains a small 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 biographical material, correspondence, writings, writing project and subject files, teaching files, printed material, artwork and sketchbooks, and photographic material. English Most of the collection is in English; some correspondence and printed materials are in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Norwegian, and possibly Latvian. Administrative Information Immediate Source of Acquisition The 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, Related Materials Among the holdings of the Archives is an oral history interview with Dore Ashton conducted November 21, 2010 by George W. Sampson, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project. Dore Ashton papers are also located at Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Processing Information The collection was partially processed by Jean Fitzgerald in The collection was minimally processed and a finding aid created by Valerie Vanden Bossche in 2013 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The 2016 addition was processed to a minimal level and the finding aid updated by Hilary Price in Preferred Citation Dore Ashton papers, 1849, circa Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Page 1

4 Conditions Governing Access Use of original papers requires an appointment. Conditions Governing Use The Dore Ashton papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights 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 / Historical Dore 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 from Harvard University in Her many books and articles focus on late 19th and 20th century art and artists. Ashton was associate editor at Art Digest from , and critic for Arts and Architecture at the New York Times, Starting in 1962 she held several lecturing posts at various institutions including the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, and the New School for Social Research. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1964 and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in Among Ashton's books are Abstract 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, Dore Ashton was the first critic to develop a comprehensive and eye-witness account of the history of the Abstract Expressions. Ashton married artist Adja Yunkers ( ) in 1953, and they had two daughters Alexandra (known as Sasha) and Marina. In 1985 she married writer Matti Megged ( ). Scope and Contents The papers of Dore Ashton measure 35.6 linear feet and date from circa , with one letter in the Joseph Cornell subject file dating from The records document Dore Ashton's career as an art critic, historian and educator, with particular depth for the period of 1952 through The collection contains a small 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 biographical material, correspondence, writings, writing project and subject files, teaching files, printed material, artwork and sketchbooks, and photographic material. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with many artists, writers and others, including Pat Adams, 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. Research files include reference or research materials for books, exhibitions, individuals and various topics. Individuals and topics include Jacopo Luis Borges, Allan Kaprow, Richard Lindner, Seong Moy, Jean Tinguely, Mark Tobey, 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 photographic material. Writings make up a significant part of the addition and contain hundreds of manuscripts, as well as lectures, notes, sixty notebooks, ten diaries, and writings by others. Writing project and subject files comprise over 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, and lecture series; as well as various other subjects and topics. The addition also contains teaching files related to Ashton's positions at the Cooper Union, the New School for Social Research, and Yale University. The Page 2

5 photographic material in this series is also abundant and contains hundreds of original photographs of Ashton throughout all stages of her life, many with friends and family. Arrangement The collection is arranged as 8 series. Missing Title Series 1: Biographical Materials, Series 2: Correspondence, , undated Series 3: Writings, , undated Series 4: Research files, 1849, , 2009, undated Series 5: Printed Materials, , undated Series 6: Artwork, 1949, 1952, 1983, undated Series 7: Photographs of Artwork, circa Series 8: Addition to the Dore Ashton Papers, circa Names and Subject Terms This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Archives of American Art under the following terms: Subjects: Art, Modern -- 20th century Art criticism Art critics Artists -- United States Art -- Study and teaching Dadaism Photographs Poetry Types of Materials: Names: Diaries Sketchbooks Transcripts Adams, Pat, Adley, James, Albee, Edward, Albers, Josef Arnheim, Rudolf Avedon, Richard Berthot, Jake, Borges, Jacopo Luis Congdon, Dennis Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art -- Faculty Cornell, Joseph Diebenkorn, Richard, Driskell, David C. Giacometti, Alberto, Guidieri, Remo Guston, Philip, Hellman, Lillian, Page 3

6 Herbert, George Hiss, Alger Howes, Barbara Kaprow, Allan Licht, Fred, Lindner, Richard, Malamud, Bernard Miró, Joan, Motherwell, Robert Moy, Seong Mumford, Lewis, New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty Oldenburg, Claes, Reuterswärd, Carl Fredrik, Sterne, Hedda, Tinguely, Jean, Tobey, Mark Tworkov, Jack Vasilikos, Vasil#s, Yale University -- Faculty Yunkers, Adja, Occupations: Educators Historians Women art critics Page 4

7 Series Descriptions/Container Listing : Biographical Material, , undated 0.1 linear Feet; Box 1 Included are Mather Award citation materials, typed introduction of Ashton by Frances Osborn Robb at TCU Honors Week Convocation 1978, scattered financial documents, miscellaneous notes and a folder of family documents and photographs. Additional family correspondence can be found in Series 2.2 alphabetical. Arranged alphabetically by type of material Award Materials and Introduction, 1962, Family Documents and Photographs, , undated Financial Records - Miscellaneous Receipts, Miscellaneous Notes, , undated : Correspondence, , undated 4.6 linear Feet; Boxes 1-5, ov Correspondence contains mixed business and personal correspondence from artists, family, friends, admirers, writers, publishers, museums, and galleries; many with enclosures including small artworks, exhibition announcements, poetry, and photographs and writings by others. There is a small amount of correspondence from Ashton to others. The largest amounts of correspondence are with Pat Adams, James Adley, Rudolf Arnheim, Jake Berthot, Dennis Congdon, George Herbert, Remo Guidieri, Barbara Howes, Fred Licht, Joan Punyet Miro, Carl Fredrik Reutersward, and Hedda Sterne, among others. A small amount of correspondence (one to six letters) is 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. Types of correspondence include holiday cards and postcards, as well as letters. Some letters and envelopes are illustrated. Correspondence is in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Norwegian. The series is arranged in two subseries. Missing Title 2.1: Chronological, : Alphabetical, , undated : Chronological, , , , January-November 1957, December 1957, , January-May 1959, June-December 1959, January-May 1960, 1960 Page 5

8 724646June-December 1960, January-March 1961, April-December 1961, , January-April 1963, May-December 1963, , January-September 1965, October-December 1965, January-March April-October 1966, November-December 1966, January-June 1967, July-September 1967, October-December January-February 1968, March-December 1968, January-March 1969, April-October 1969, November-December 1969, January-March 1970, April-July 1970, August-December 1970, , January-October 1972, November-December 1972, January-August 1973, September-December 1973, , January-May 1975, June-December 1975, January-March 1976, April-June 1976, July-December 1976, January-February 1977, March-April 1977, May-December 1977, , 1978 Page 6

9 724684January-June 1979, July-December 1979, January-August 1980, September-December 1980, January-February 1981, March-May 1981, June-December 1981, , : Alphabetical, , undated A, Correspondents include Edward Albee, Josef Albers, Pierre Alechinsky and Richard Avedon Adami, Valerio, Adams, Pat, Adley, James, Arnheim, Rudolf, Ashton, Dore to William Dworkin, , Ashton, Sylvia Smith Shapiro, B, Correspondents include Alfred Barr, Roland Barthes, Elizabeth Bishop and James Brooks Berthot, Jake, C, Correspondents include Anthony Caro, Michael Corris Congdon, Dennis, D, Correspondents include Stephen De Satebler, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Piero Dorazio and David Driskell Davenport, Guy, E, Escobedo, Helen, F, Correspondents include Morton Feldman, S. Lane Faison and Carolos Fuentes Forge, Andrew, de Francia, Peter, G, Correspondents include Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Graves and Serge Guilbaut George, Herbert, Giacometti, Alberto, Goto, Joe, , undated Page 7

10 724715Greene, Stephen, Guidieri, Remo, Gustafson, Christian, Guston, Philip, 1978, undated H, Correspondents include David Hare, Barbara Hepworth, Lillian Hellman, Alger Hiss, and Sam Hunter Hammacher, Abraham Marie [Bram], Hartnett, Susan, Howes, Barbara, I, J, Correspondents include Alfredo Jaar, Ray Johnson Jeannet, Frederic-Yves, K, Correspondents include Ellsworth Kelly, Stanley Kunitz L, Correspondents include Jack Lenore Larsen and Richard Lindner Licht, Fred, , undated Lynton, Norbert, M, Correspondents include Bernard Malamud, W.S. Merwin, and Robert Motherwell Megged, Matti, undated Miro, Joan, Delores and Joan Punyet, N, O, Correspondents include Nathan Oliveira, Claes Oldenburg, and Daniel Ortega P, Q, R, Correspondents include Archie Rand, Ad Reinhardt, and Theodore Roethke Reutersward, Carl-Fredrik, S, Correspondents include Karl Schrag, Peter Selz, Roger Shattuck, Bill Smock, Pierre Soulages S, Shapiro, Ralph Neil [Ashton], 1978, 1991, undated Sterne, Hedda, T, Correspondents include Mark Tansey, Harold Tovish, William Tucker, and Jack Tworkov Page 8

11 724770Unidentified and Unknown Correspondents, V, Correspondents include Regina Vater, Emilio Verdova, Ursula von Rydingsvard Vassilikos, Vassilis, W, Correspondents include Betty Woodman, Christopher Wilmarth, Richard Wilbur, and James Wright Wadley, Nick, X-Y, Correspondents include Jack Youngerman Yunkers, Adja, Yunkers, Alexandra and Marina, , 2009, undated : Writings, , undated 1.6 linear Feet; Boxes 5-7 Series 3 contains miscellaneous typescripts for unidentified articles, and typescripts of articles and reviews for various publications including Arts and Architecture and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Miscellaneous typescripts are arranged chronologically, followed by typescripts for specific publications arranged alphabetically by title of publication "Avanguadia;" "What Is Avant-Garde?," undated "Between Cave and Computer," undated Guiseppe Capogrossi, undated "Jose De Rivera: A Study," undated "Donati," undated "Fra Angelico," undated Goya, undated Philip Guston, undated "Those Etruscans;" "Sardinia;" "Rome," undated "Paris Letter;" Review of "Nature in Abstraction" Exhibition, undated Guston, Stamos, Ippolito; Iaroslav Serpan, Claude Viseux, Mitchell, Lester Johnson, undated Hans Hofmann, Kline, De Kooning, Guston, Day Schnabel, Tworkov, Stefanelli, Schapiro; Joan Mitchell, Glarner, De Rivera, Lipton, Guston, Brooks, Hartigan, undated "Interview with George Salles, Director des Musees France," undated Gabriel Kohn, undated Henri Michaux, undated "Miro's Ceramics," undated "More Than Enlightened: The Olivetti Method," undated Motherwell, Mirko, Louis, Bluhm; Dugmore, Morris, Diebenkorn, Stefanelli, Wonner, Mitchell, Goldberg, Nicho Las Marsicano, Stankiewicz, Andrews, Nivola, undated Page 9

12 724796"Report from Rome: Tchelitchew," undated "Jeanne Reynal," undated Wols, undated "An Interview with Christian Zervos," undated "St.-John Perse's Guadeloupe," undated Italian "Synthesists," undated "Prague Notes," undated French Modernist Artists, undated Pre-Columbian Art, undated "Abstract and Non-Objective Art," undated "The Urge to Abstraction," undated Position of Abstract Art in Europe, undated "Drawing in Modern American Art," undated "The Good and the Civilized," undated "The Age Old Art of Letters," undated Sarasota Catalogue Introduction, undated Unidentified Fragments, undated Kienbusch, "Passage from a Critic's Diary," "Antonio Gaudi," circa "Notes on France and Spain;" Smith, Tomlin, Appel, Woelffer, "A View of American Painting," Paris Art Scene, J.B. Newmann, "Americans in Paris;" "The 30th Venice Bienniale;" Avant-Garde Paintings in Prague, "Interview with Marcel Jean;" Chamberlain, Leslie, Goodnough, Suzuki, Sawada, Lund, Conner, Natkin; "The Age of Lyricism," "As the Sun Grows Cold," "Lee Bontecou;" Picasso, Lobdell; Goto; Riopelle; Cohen, "James Rosati;" "Portrait of the Artist as Litterateur: Varujan Boghosian," "Assemblage and Beyond;" "Curating Instant Art in History;" "Drawings of Michaelangelo;" "Pastel Anthology," Catalogue Introduction for Modern Masters in Miniature"Protest;" "Robert Murray," "Lee Bontecou;" "Deborah Remington," "Use of Manufactured Objects on the Picture Plane;" "Picaresque Episodes of a Great Museum;" "An Open and Shut Case," Page 10

13 724863"Frank Roth," "The Merging Media;" "Merde, Alors!," "Education Through The Arts in Every Sense," Abstract Expressionism; Landscape Painting; Elsa Schmid, Stained Glass Artist, Preface for Exhibition Catalog, Review of book Monet by William C. Seitz, undated "Josef Albers;" "Louise Nevelson;" Re: Artist-Sponsored Exhibitions, "Miro's Sculptures," "Art and Social Change," circa "A Romantic's Homage to Hans Gerth," circa "Robert Motherwell," circa Jack Sonenberg, Notes for "From Campus to Main Street" Panel at CAA, Regimenting Cliches Applied to Artists, "Jake Berthot," "Paintings by Harvey Quaytman," "Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler," Philip Guston, Lee Krasner, "Brice Marden's Drawings," "Our Contemporary, de Kooning," "The Poster as Contemporary Genre;" "Introduction: Images of an Era," "No More Than an Accident," circa "Philosopher or Dog?," Art and Artist Article, Art Bulletin Articles, 1973, Art in America Articles, Art International Articles, 1962, Arts Articles, Arts and Architecture Articles, Aujourd'hui Article, Baltimore Museum Bulletin Article, undated Canadian Art Articles, Cimaise Articles, , undated Colloquio Articles, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Article, Craft Horizons Article, 1969 Page 11

14 725914D'Arts Article, circa Das Kunstwerk Articles, France Observateur Article, Harper's Bazaar Article, undated L'Art Vivant Article, Le Monde Articles, London Art News & Review Article, undated London Studio Articles, , undated Motive Article, New York Times Review of Mortal Victory by Lawrence Hanson, undated Opus International Articles, Plural Article, Quadrum Articles, 1964, Review 75 Article, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Articles, , undated San Francisco Evergreen Article, undated Show Article, Studio International Articles, , undated Studio International Articles, XXieme Siecle Articles, , undated : Research files, 1849, , 2009, undated 3.3 linear Feet; Boxes 7-10, ov Research files include materials on Ashton's books, on exhibitions, individuals, and miscellaneous topics. Included are clippings, artworks, photographic material, booklets, brochures, correspondence, and notes. Topics include Angry Art, civil rights, Czech, Polish, and religious art, film, Dadaism, poetry, print-making, and symbolism. Among individuals are Jacopo Luis Borges, Allan Kaprow, Richard Lindner, Seong Moy, Jean Tinguely, Mark Tobey, Jack Tworkov, and Adja Yunkers. Arranged alphabetically by the broad topics of books, exhibitions, individuals and miscellaneous topics, then alphabetically by specific name or title Book: Art and Politics in the 20th Century, Book: Art in America Since 1945, undated Book: Great Graphic Masters, undated Book: In the Shadow of Frenhofer, undated Book: A Joseph Cornell Album, 1849, Book: Cutting and Printing Woodcuts, circa Book: Picasso On Art, Book: Poets and the Past, , 1984, undated Book: A Reading of Modern Art, Page 12

15 725547Book: A Reading of Modern Art, Book: Recent American Paintings, Book: Response to Crisis in American Art, Book: Robert Rauschenberg's Drawings for Dante's Inferno, Book: Rosa Bonheur, Book: Time-Space in the Arts, undated Book: The Unknown Shore, Book: Yes, But...A Critical Study of Philip Guston, Exhibition: "Abstract Art Before Columbus," Exhibition: "Abstract Drawings and Watercolors: U.S.A.," Exhibition: Darmstadt Drawings International, Exhibition: "Lam, Gorky, Noguchi, Matta in New York: ," 2009, undated Exhibition: "Modern American Drawings," Exhibition: "Poets and Prints," Individuals: Milton Avery, Individuals: Rene Berger, Individuals: Jacopo Luis Borges, Individuals: Pol Bury, Individuals: Milton Cohen, Individuals: James Ensor, Individuals: John Ferren, Individuals: Helen Frankenthaler, Individuals: Ernest Gambart, undated Individuals: Allan Kaprow, Individuals: Andrew Mikhailovich Lanskoy, Individuals: Jack Levine, 1952, undated Individuals: Richard Lindner, Individuals: Gustav Moreau, Individuals: Seong Moy, Individuals: Constantino Nivola, Individuals: Gabor Peterdi, 1952, undated Individuals: Rainer Marie Rilke, 1974, undated Individuals: Miriam Schapiro, Individuals: Nicolas Schoffer, Individuals: Tony Smith, Individuals: Jean Tinguely, Individuals: Mark Tobey, Individuals: Jack Tworkov, Page 13

16 725597Individuals: Adja Yunkers, Topics: Angry Arts, Topics: Association Internationale des Critiques D'Art, 1963, undated Topics: Black Art, Topics: Chile, Topics: Civil Rights, Topics: Coinciding Arts, Topics: Czech Art, Topics: Dadaism and Neo-Realism, Topics: Dadaism and Neo-Realism, Topics: Film, Topics: Fondation Maeght, Topics: MOMA: Dissidents in Art, Topics: New York Times, Topics: P.E.N. American Center, 1980, undated Topics: Performing Arts, Topics: Poetry, , undated Topics: Polish Art, Topics: Printmaking, Topics: Prints, Topics: Religious Art, Topics: Rio Grande Graphics, 1952, undated Topics: Symbolism, Topics: Washington Post, : Printed Materials, , undated 0.5 linear Feet; Box 10 Printed materials collected by Ashton include brochures and booklets, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, galley proofs, press releases and programs. Topics include Dubuffet, Avedon, Ippolito, the New York School, collecting, Italian art, Jackson Pollock, sculpture, book reviews, and lectures. Arranged alphabetically by type of material, chronologically thereafter Brochures and Booklets, , undated Clippings, undated Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, 1955 Page 14

17 725628Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Clippings, Exhibition Announcements and Catalogs, , undated Galley Proofs, circa Press Releases, Programs, : 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 possibly designed by Adja Yunkers; 4.25x5.75 print signed Lichtenstein 1949; pencil or charcoal on paper design, dated Jan marked "for Dore," illegible signature; collage print on paper entitled "Dore on the Beach," signed Adja Yunkers, with envelop from the Edna Hibel Gallery in New York. Arranged in donor's original order Drawings and Prints, 1949, 1952, 1983, undated : Photographs of Artwork, circa linear Feet; Boxes 10-14, ov 15 Photographs include black and white photocopy prints and a few prints and postcards, acquired by Ashton for reference, and representing mostly 19th and 20th century American and European artists. Most are labeled and of a single work of art, some show artworks in exhibition spaces. Page 15

18 Arranged alphabetically by artist's surname, followed by subjects A, circa Adams, Pat, circa Afro, circa Alechinsky, Pierre, circa Antes, Horst, circa Appel, Karel, circa Arakawa, circa Arp, Jean, circa Avery, Milton, circa B, circa Bacon, Francis, circa Baldessari, John, circa Barragan, Luis, circa Baruchello, circa Bearden, Romare, circa Beauchamp, Robert, circa Beck, Rosemarie, circa Beckmann, Max, circa Bess, Forrest, circa Birolli, Renato, circa Bladen, Ronald, circa Boghosian, Varusan, circa Bonnard, Pierre, circa Brancusi, Constantin, circa Braque, Georges, circa Brooks, James, circa Bucker, Robert, circa Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, circa Bury, Pol, circa C, circa Caro, Anthony, circa Carone, Nicholas, circa Cesar, circa Cezanne, circa Chamberlain, John, circa Christo, circa Page 16

19 725689Corneille, circa Corot, circa D, circa D'Arcangelo, Allen, circa Davie, Alan, circa Davis, Stuart, circa de Chirico, Giorgio, circa Degas, Edgar, circa de Kooning, Willem, circa Delauney, Robert, circa Demuth, Charles, circa de Rivera, Jose, circa Diebenkorn, Richard, circa Dine, circa Donati, Enrico, circa Dorazio, circa Dubuffet, Jean, circa Duchamp, Marcel, circa Dufour, Bernard, circa Dugmore, Edward, circa E, circa Engel, Jules, circa F, circa G, circa Gauguin, Paul, circa Geoffrey, Iqbal, circa George, Herbert, circa Giacometti, Alberto, circa Glarner, Fritz, circa Glasco, Joseph, circa Gleizes, Albert, circa Goldberg, Michael, circa Goodnough, Robert, circa Gorky, Arshile, circa Gottlieb, Adolph, circa Goya, circa Graham, John, circa Greene, Stephen, circa Page 17

20 725727Grosz, George, circa H, circa Haber, circa Hadzi, Dimitri, circa Hajdu, Etienne, circa Hartigan, Grace, circa Hartley, Marsden, circa Held, Al, circa Hepworth, Barbara, circa Higgins, Eduard, circa Hofmann, Hans, circa Holtz, Carl, circa Hultberg, John, circa I, circa Indiana, Robert, circa Inokuma, circa Ipousteguy, Jean, circa Ippolito, Angelo, circa J, circa Jacobsen, circa Jewish Museum New York, circa Johns, Jasper, circa Johnson, Lester, circa Johnson, Ray, circa K, circa Kelly, Ellsworth, circa Kienbush, William, circa Klapheck, circa Klee, Paul, circa Klein, Yves, circa Kleine, Franz, circa Koenig, J.F., circa Kohn, Wolf, circa Kupka, Frank, circa L, circa Lanyon, Peter, circa Lasansky, Mauricio, circa Leger, Fernand, circa Page 18

21 725777Liberman, Alexander, circa Lipchitz, Jacques, circa Lipton, Seymour, circa Lobdell, Frank, circa Louis, Morris, circa Lukin, Sven, circa M, circa Marca-Relli, Corrado, circa Magritte, Rene, circa Maillol, Aristide, circa Marin, John, circa Matisse, Henri, circa Matta, circa Maurer, Alfred, circa McNiell, George, circa Miro, Joan, circa Mitchell, Joan, circa Modigliani, Amadeo, circa Mondrian, Piet, circa Monet, Claude, circa Moore, Henry, circa Motherwell, Robert, circa Moy, Seong, circa Muller, Robert, circa Munch, Edvard, circa Murray, Robert, circa N, circa Nakian, Reuben, circa Natkin, Robert, circa Nevelson, Louise, circa Newman, Barnett, circa Nivola, Constantino, circa Noland, Kenneth, circa O, circa O'Keeffe, Georgia, circa Oldenburg, Claes, circa Oliveira, Nathan, circa Oran, Ran, circa Page 19

22 725820Ortman, George, circa P, circa Paolozzi, Eduardo, circa Paris, Harold, circa Pearlstein, Philip, circa Picasso, Pablo, circa Pissarro, Camille, circa Pollock, Jackson, circa Quaytman, Harvey, circa R, circa Rauschenberg, Robert, circa Remington, Deborah, circa Richenberg, Robert, circa Riopelle, Jean, circa Rodin, Auguste, circa Rosati, James, circa Rosenthal, Bernard, circa Roszak, Theodore J., circa Roth, Frank, circa Rothko, Mark, circa S, circa Saul, Peter, circa Schapiro, Miriam, circa Schoffer, Nicolas, circa Schwitters, Kurt, circa Scott, William, circa Seurat, Georges, circa Sima, Joseph, circa Smith, Leon Polk, circa Smith, Richard, circa Soulages, Pierre, circa Stamos, Theodoros, circa Stankiewicz, Richard, circa Stefanelli, Joseph, circa Steinberg, Saul, circa Stella, Frank, circa Sterne, Hedda, circa Still, Clyfford, circa Page 20

23 725858T, circa Tal Coat, Pierre, circa Tapies, Antoni, circa Tobey, Mark, circa Tomlin, Bradley Walker, circa Torres-Garcia, Joaquin, circa Turnbull, William, circa Turner, Joseph Mallord William, circa Tworkov, Jack, circa V, circa Vasarely, Victor, circa Vicente, Esteban, circa Villon, Jacques, circa Viseux, Claude, circa Voulkos, Peter, circa W, circa Wiley, William, circa Xceron, Jean, circa Yrisarry, Mario, circa Youngerman, Jack, circa Z, circa Zacharias, Athos, circa Zox, Larry, circa American 19th Century Drawing and Painting: Bierstadt-Tarbell, circa American 19th Century Drawings and Paintings: Sargent, John Singer, circa American 19th Century Drawing and Painting: Whistler, James McNeill, circa American 20th Century Drawings, circa California and Chicago Artists, circa Environmental Earthworks, John Gibson Gallery, circa European 19th and 20th Century Sculpture: A-D, circa European 19th and 20th Century Sculpture: J-M, circa European 19th and 20th Century Sculpture: Picasso, Pablo, circa European 20th Century Painting, circa Japanese 20th Century Painting, circa Miscellaneous Photographers: Hammid, Hine, Kertesz, Lartigue, Moore, Steichen, circa Miscellaneous, circa Page 21

24 th Century Drawings, circa : Addition to the Dore Ashton Papers, circa linear Feet; Box 17-40, OV The addition to the Dore Ashton papers includes biographical material, correspondence, writings, writing project and subject files, teaching files, printed material, artwork and sketchbooks, and photographic material. Writings make up a significant part of the addition and contain hundreds of manuscripts, as well as lectures, notes, sixty notebooks, ten diaries, and writings by others. Writing project and subject files comprise over half of the addition and encompass a large 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 as various other subjects and topics. Many of the files contain research compiled for a vast number of writing projects including books, articles, and catalog essays. The addition also contains teaching files related to Ashton's positions at the Cooper Union, the New School for Social Research, and Yale University. Artwork and seven sketchbooks contain brief studies of people and places, most done while traveling. The photographic material in this series is also abundant and 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 professional engagements. The series is arranged as 8 subseries. Missing Title 8.1: Biographical Material, : Correspondence, circa : Writings, : Writing Project and Subject Files, circa : Teaching Files, : Printed Material, circa : Artwork and Sketchbooks, circa : Photographic Material, circa : Biographical Material, linear Feet; Box 17 Biographical material dates from and includes address books, agendas, curricula vitae, membership cards, and passports. A few files contain Ashton's personal business records regarding a donation to the Museum of Modern Art library and royalty statements from publishers. Also found here are personal and business files relating to Ashton's family, including her father and children Address Index, circa Address Books, circa Agendas, Curricula Vitae, circa Donation to the Museum of Modern Art, Family Children's Drawings, circa Marina's Scrapbook, Ralph Shapiro (Father), Personal Business Records, circa Page 22

25 Membership Cards, New York Public Library Medal, Passports, Royalties, circa : Correspondence, circa linear Feet; Box Correspondence dates from circa and, as with Series 2, contains mixed business and personal correspondence from artists, family, friends, writers, publishers, museums, and galleries. While predominantly correspondence, small artworks, printed material, and writings by others are mixed in. The largest amounts of correspondence are with actor Eusebio Lázaro, art historians Fred Licht and Norbert Lynton, and her second husband Matti Megged. Types of correspondence include letters and postcards. Correspondence is in English, Spanish, and French Ashton, Sylvia (Mother), A, General, circa B, General, circa Congdon, Dennis, C-D, General, Escobedo, Helen, circa E-G, General, circa H-I, General, circa Jeannet, Frédéric Yves, J, General, Karetnikova, Inga, circa K, General, Lázaro, Eusebio, Licht, Fred, Lynton, Norbert, L, General, Megged, Matti, M-P, General, Quirarte, Vincent, R, General, circa Shapiro, Ralph Neil (Father), S, General, circa T-V, General, circa Writing Assignments and Lectures, circa W, General, Yunkers, Adja, Page 23

26 Yunkers, Marina and Sasha (Children), Y, General, Postcards, circa Outgoing, circa : Writings, linear Feet; Box Unidentified and Unknown Correspondents, Writings date from and contain manuscripts, lectures, notes, sixty notebooks, ten diaries, and a small number of writings by others. Manuscripts include hundreds of essays, articles, introductions, and reviews, as well as a few books and book chapters, including A Joseph Cornell Album (1974), A Fable of Modern Art (1980) and Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art (1997). Manuscripts are mostly typescripts, with a small number of published versions of Ashton's writings in magazines. Occasional items of correspondence, handwritten notes, and other 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 and notebooks contain a set of index cards with research and quotations by various artists and thinkers, two folders of scattered notes on a variety of subjects, and sixty notebooks. The majority of the notebooks are travel related and contain logistical notes, jottings, lists, names and addresses, thoughts and reflections, as well as sketches. Ten diaries chronicle Ashton's day-to-day life, and contain illuminating recounts of dinner parties and conversations with artists and writers. Writings by others predominantly contain writings by art historian and friend Fred Licht, but other writings by friends are also found here, as well as one file of unidentified writings. The subseries is arranged as 5 sub-subseries. Missing Title 8.3.1: Manuscripts, circa : Lectures, circa : Notes and Notebooks, circa : Diaries, : Writings by Others, circa : Manuscripts, circa linear Feet; Box " ," for Hirshhorn Catalog, circa "Abstract Expressionism," "Abstract Expressionism: Background and Early Years," circa "Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, ," "Abstract Thoughts from Abstraction," "Abstraction," "Action," "The Adventures of the 'New York School'," "Anna Akhmatova, ," "Alechinsky in Pittsburgh or Wherever He Happens to Be," "All His Roads Led to..." (Guston), 2009 Page 24

27 "American Mutations," [Curtis Anderson], "Karel Appel," "Architecture I," "Are We Sufficiently Alarmed?," "Rudolph Arnheim," "Art and Social Change," circa "The Artist as the Conscience of Society," circa [Artists and the Hamptons], "The Arts of Joseph Cornell," circa "As I Was Saying" (Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd), "As the Silkworm Produces," "Aspects of Modernism," circa "Attitudes toward Abstract Painting in the Seventies," "Attitudes toward Contemporary Art," circa "Autobiographical Sketch for World Authors," "Back to Sentience" (Hugh O'Donnell), "Joan Banach through a Glass Darkly," circa "Banners," circa [Rudolph Baranik], "Barcelo," "Carlo Battaglia," "Baudelaire Irremediable Modern," "Romare Bearden," "Being with (or against) Picasso," circa "La Belle Noiseuse According to Jacques Rivette," "Jake Berthot's Order," "Between Geometry and Gesture...Somewhere," "Al Blaustien," "Pierrette Bloch," [Bonevardi], "Richard Parkes Bonington," "Power Boothe's Gait," [Borges], "Brancusi, Man of Principle," circa "Eugene Brodsky," "James Brooks," "Cecily Brown En Route," 2008 Page 25

28 "Earle Brown's Continuum," [John Cage], "Can Art Survive as Carnival?," "Nicholas Carone," Catalog Essay for Abstract Painting, (1983) Exhibition at Project Studio One (P.S.1), Catalog Essay for Albuquerque '50s (1989) Exhibition, Catalog Essay for L'Aventure géométrique et cinétique (1984) Exhibition, Catalog Essay for Picasso in the Age of Iron (1993), Catalog Essay for Posters Exhibition, Catalog Introduction to Queens Museum Annual Juried Exhibition, "Blais Cendrars: Skeins, Cross-lines, and Disorder or Allow Me to Digress...," "The Center Has a Center," "The Chambered Nautilus in Modern Art," circa "Michelle Charles," "Chermayeff's Collages," "Martin Chirino," "Martin Chirino," "Cobra in Context," circa "The Coincidence of the Arts," circa "Colla," "Common Ground," "Concerning Chinampa and Other Factual and Fictional Matters," [Joseph Cornell], A Joseph Cornell Album, circa "Counteractions," "Critical Attitudes," circa "Critical Attitudes toward Contemporary Art," circa [Critics] for Avenue, "Cultural Soundings in France: New Cultural Policy," "Nassos Daphnis," "Allan D'Archangelo's American Landscape," "Alan Davie," [Stuart Davis], circa "Davis and Gorky," "Peter de Francia: Drawings," "Elaine [Fried] and Bill [de Kooning]," 1993 Page 26

29 [De Kooning for MOCA Los Angeles], Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art, circa "Jose de Rivera," "Stephen de Staebler," "Stephen de Staebler," circa [Stephen de Staebler], "Fernando de Szyszlo," "Michael di Canio," circa "Richard Diebenkorn," [H. J. Diehl], [Dr. Wilder, Pour le Sport], "Does Invidiousness Go with the Territory?," "Maria Dompè," "Tom Doyle," "Jean Dubuffet: The Culture of Anti-Culture," "Edward Dugmore," "Dürer's Melancholia," circa Encyclopedia Entries, "Helen Escobedo," circa "The Eternal Returns Are Not yet Tallied," circa "Every Grain of Sand...Notes from a Visit to Nicaragua," "Expressionism," circa A Fable of Modern Art, circa "Manuel Felguérez and His Formas-Ideas," "The Finesse of Richard Diebenkorn," "Foraging," "The Force That Drives the Water through the Rocks," [Forward, Criticism], circa Forward to Nivasio Dolcemare by Alberto Savinio, Forward to Motherwell Book, Forward to Rainer Maria Rilke Book, [Andrew Forge], [Andrew Forge], "Cornelia Foss," "The Free Hand," "From Symbol to Symbolism," "From USLA's Chairman" (U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners), 1981 Page 27

30 [Fuentes and Nissen], "Further Thoughts of a Bemused Tourist About Curtis Anderson," "Charles Gagnon's Point of View," "The Gaiety of Disorder: Picasso's Life in the Studio," circa "Yves Gaucher at the New York Cultural Center," "Anna Bella Geiger," "Herbert George: Spaceholds in 1975, and Walking...," "Germinations: The Drawings of Philip Guston," "Gunther Gerzso," "Giacometti Hic et Nunc," [Sam Gilliam], "Sam Gilliam, Mars at Angles," "Grand Hotel," "The Great Misunderstanding: That Is Not What I Meant at All" (Guston)," "El Greco of Toledo," "El Greco was an Intellectual!," [Gropius], circa [Hans Haacke, Museum Exhibitions], "Dimitri Hadzi," "Susan Hartnett," circa [Al Held], "Homage to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler," "The Home Show," "Humanism," "René Huyghe," "If the Lines and Forms Rhyme...," "Implications of Nationalism for Abstract Expressionism," circa "An Impromptu for David Medalla and Guy Brett," "Inside the Studio," circa [Introduction, 37 Artists, UNESCO], Introduction to Around Jackson Pollock Catalog, "Introduction to the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Inc.," circa Introduction to Guston Book, Introduction to Israeli and Palestinian Works Exhibit, Introduction, Landauer, San Francisco Abstract Expressionism, Introduction to Motherwell Book, circa Introduction to Motherwell on Rothko Exhibit in France, "Introduction to Picasso Chapter," circa 1980 Page 28