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Ellen D'Oench

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Ellen Gates D'Oench

Ellen Gates D'Oench (2 October 1930 - 22 May 2009), known as "Puffin", was Curator Emerita of the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.[1] She was a specialist in 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".[2]

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.[3] ISBN 9780300076301
  • "Arthur Devis" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

References

  1. ^ Ellen Gates D'Oench. Hartford Courant, 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  2. ^ Opening for “Collecting Photographs: Ellen G. D’Oench and the Growth of the Collection”. Wesleyan University, 25 March 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  3. ^ Copper into Gold Prints by John Raphael Smith. Yale Books. Retrieved 28 April 2016.