Ellen Gates D'Oench

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] A Wesleyan graduate magna cum laude, she curated the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998.

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".[2] She also wrote about and catalogued the work of Robert F. Sheehan's color photography.[3]

Personal life

She was the great-grandaighter of W.R. Grace. Her son Peter Gates D'Oench, who she graduated Wesleyan with, became a TV news reporter in Miami and married an Oppenheimer.[4]

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.[5] 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. ↑ http://magazine.wesleyan.edu/2009/06/20/ellen-gates-doench/
  4. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/17/archives/cory-oppenheimer-is-engaged-to-marry-peter-g-doench.html
  5. ↑ Copper into Gold Prints by John Raphael Smith. Yale Books. Retrieved 28 April 2016.



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