Photographic Material
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
- 0.7 Linear feet (Box 38-40, OV 42)
- Date
- circa 1928-2010
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.ashtdore, Subseries 8.8
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Dore Ashton papers, 1849, circa 1928-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- 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
- 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 professional engagements. Several professional photographs of Ashton taken by a number of different photographers are here as well. Loose pages of a fragile family album date from the 1940s and contain photographs pasted to paper with some written descriptions. A few of the photographs of artists and artwork are by Ashton, while the majority are copies of portraits 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 France commemorating artist Rosa Bonheur, the subject of Ashton's book, Rosa Bonheur: A Life and a Legend (1981). The last folder contains photographs given to Ashton. Formats are predominantly color and black and white prints, with few negatives and slides (35mm).
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562709620805-1562709621023-8
- Metadata Usage
- CC0