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Askew, Pamela

    Full Name: Askew, Pamela

    Other Names:

    • née Pamela McComb

    Gender: female

    Date Born: 1925

    Date Died: 1997

    Place Born: Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, NY, USA

    Home Country/ies: United States


    Overview

    Askew’s father was the art historian Arthur K. McComb and mother Constance Atwood. She was born while her father was teaching art history at Vassar. Her parents were divorced when she was young and her step father, the art dealer R. Kirk Askew (1903-1974), adopted her. Askew grew up in New York City. As a college student, she majored in English at Vassar College. Her A.M. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University was completed in 1951. She completed her dissertation at the Courtauld Institute under Johannes Wilde, writing on Domenico Fetti. She returned to Vassar to teach, becoming full professor in 1969. She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during the 1977-78 academic year. In 1988 she received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Art History. She died of lymphoma.


    Selected Bibliography

    Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990; Claude Lorrain,1600-1682: a Symposium. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1984; “Ferdinando Gonzaga’s Patronage of the Pictorial Arts: the Villa Favorita.” Art Bulletin 60 (June 1978): 274-96; “Angelic Consolation of St. Francis of Assisi in Post-Tridentine Italian Painting.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 32 (1969): 280-306; “Fetti’s Martyrdom at the Wadsworth Atheneum.” Burlington Magazine 103 (June 1961): 245-52; “Relation of Bernini’s Architecture to the Architecture of the High Renaissance and of Michelangelo.” Marsyas 5 (1947-1949): 39-61.


    Sources

    [obituary:] Rubenstein, Ruth. “Pamela Askew 1925-1992.” Burlington Magazine 140 (July 1998): 478.


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    Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen


    Citation

    Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen. "Askew, Pamela." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/askewp/.


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