found: Her Abstract art before Columbus, 1957.
found: Costantino Nivola, c2001:t.p. (Dore Ashton)
found: Picasso black and white, 2012:CIP t.p. (Dore Ashton)
found: Info. converted from 678, 20120924(b. 5/21/28)
found: Wikipedia, viewed October 19, 2015(born 1928 in Newark, New Jersey; writer, professor and critic of modern and contemporary art)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 6, 2017(in obituary published Feb. 3: Dore Ashton; b. Dorothea Shapiro, May 21, 1928, Newark; took the surname Ashton from her mother's second husband; d. Monday [Jan. 30, 2017], the Bronx, aged 88; art historian and critic who wrote some of the earliest and most insightful histories of Abstract Expressionism and the leading painters of the New York School)