Dore Ashton (May 21, 1928 – January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on modern and contemporary art.
[4] Ashton also contributed to many publications, including Art Digest.
and worked as an art critic at The New York Times.
[5][6] Ashton was one of the New York art critics who championed the New York School, whose members also included Harold Rosenberg and Barbara Rose.
[9] Ashton was a professor of art history at the Cooper Union in New York City and a senior critic in painting and printmaking at Yale.