Ellen Gates D'Oench

Ellen Gates D'Oench (2 October 1930 – 22 May 2009),[1] known as "Puffin", was Curator Emerita of the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.[2] A Wesleyan graduate magna cum laude, she curated the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998.

Biography

Ellen Gates D'Oench was born 2 October 1930. 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]

She was the daughter of Elenita Crenshaw Gates, who married John Montheith Gates, and second husband Arthur Houghton. Both husbands were involved with Steuben Glassworks NYC. She married Russell Grace ( Derry ) D'Oench a great great grandson of W.R. Grace, who had the Grace shipping lines in NYC. Her oldest son Peter Gilchrist D'Oench, who she graduated Wesleyan with, became a TV news reporter in Miami and married an Oppenheimer.[5] She was survive by sons Peter, wife Connie 3 daughters, 2 grand daughters, and Russell Grace ( Toby ) D'Oench, wife Tani Takagi, granddaughter and grand son, and daughter Ellen D'Oench ( Dodie ) Ruimerman, previously a daughter Jennifer, who died at a young age.

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

  1. ↑ "Ellen Gates D'Oench". Legacy. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  2. ↑ Ellen Gates D'Oench. Hartford Courant, 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Opening for “Collecting Photographs: Ellen G. D’Oench and the Growth of the Collection”. Wesleyan University, 25 March 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Ellen Gates d'Oench".
  5. ↑ "Cory Oppenheimer is Engaged to Marry Peter G. d'Oench". The New York Times. 17 January 1971.
  6. ↑ Copper into Gold Prints by John Raphael Smith. Yale Books. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
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