Ellen D'Oench
Ellen Gates D'Oench (October 2, 1930 – May 22, 2009),[1] was Curator Emerita of the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. A Wesleyan graduate magna cum laude, she curated the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998. [2]
Biography
D'Oench became an expert on the art of Arthur Devis on whom she completed her PhD dissertation at Yale University under the title "Arthur Devis: Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece". In 2011, an exhibition was held at the Davison Art Center titled "Collecting Photographs: Ellen G. D’Oench and the Growth of the Collection".[3] She also wrote about and catalogued the work of Robert F. Sheehan's color photography.[4]
Marriage
She married Russell Grace D'Oench, a great-great-grandson of businessman W. R. Grace.[5]
Selected publications
- The conversation piece: Arthur Devis and his contemporaries. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1980. ISBN 0930606280
- Copper into gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999.[6] ISBN 9780300076301
- "Arthur Devis" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
References
- ^ "Ellen Gates D'Oench". Legacy. 22 March 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ^ Ellen Gates D'Oench obituary, Hartford Courant, 2009. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ Opening for "Collecting Photographs: Ellen G. D’Oench and the Growth of the Collection", Wesleyan University, March 25, 2011. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ "Ellen Gates d'Oench profile". wesleyan.edu. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
- ^ "Cory Oppenheimer is Engaged to Marry Peter G. d'Oench". The New York Times. January 17, 1971.
- ^ Copper into Gold Prints by John Raphael Smith, Yale Books. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
External links
- Ellen Gates D'Oench obituary via webcitation.org. Accessed April 5, 2024.
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