Writings
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Ashton, Dore
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- Dore Ashton papers
- Dore Ashton papers / Series 8: Addition to the Dore Ashton Papers
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of a portion of this collection was provided the Smithsonian Institution Collections Care and Preservation Fund
- Extent
- 6.3 Linear feet (Box 19-25)
- Date
- 1947-2011
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.ashtdore, Subseries 8.3
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Dore Ashton papers, 1849, circa 1928-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- The subseries is arranged as 5 sub-subseries. 8.3.1: Manuscripts, circa 1950-2010 8.3.2: Lectures, circa 1960-2008 8.3.3: Notes and Notebooks, circa 1957-2011 8.3.4: Diaries, 1947-2008 8.3.5: Writings by Others, circa 1954-2010
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents
- Writings date from 1947-2011 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.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562709620805-1562709620923-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0