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The art critic Dore Ashton with Isamu Noguchi's "Red Untitled" (1965-66).
2017 Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Dore Ashton
Died on January 30, 2017 at age 88
An art historian and critic, Ms. Ashton wrote some of the earliest and most insightful histories of Abstract Expressionism and the leading painters of the New York School.
Notable Deaths 2017
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