Pamela Askew (February 2, 1925 – June 24, 1997) was an American art historian who wrote influential works on Domenico Fetti and Caravaggio.
Pamela Askew | |
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Born | February 2, 1925 Poughkeepsie, New York, US |
Died | June 24, 1997 Poughkeepsie, New York, US | (aged 72)
Awards | ACLS Fellowship (1965)[1] CAA Distinguished Teaching Award for Art History (1988)[2] |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Vassar College Courtauld Institute of Art |
Academic work | |
Main interests | Art history |
Notable works | Caravaggio's 'Death of the Virgin' (Princeton, 1990) |
Askew's father was Arthur McComb, Professor of baroque art at Vassar College and Harvard University, and author of the influential Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works (1928). She grew up in New York City with her mother, Constance, and step-father, R. Kirk Askew Jr., a Park Avenue art dealer.[3]
She did undergraduate studies at Vassar College, followed by an MA in Art History at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, with a thesis on Perino del Vaga. She took her Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in 1954, under Johannes Wilde with work on Domenico Fetti.[2]
On 26 March 1955, she married Timothy John Oswald Mosley, an Englishman educated at Eton College, who had served in the Coldstream Guards.[3] She returned to teach at Vassar, becoming a full professor in 1969. She died of lymphoma in 1997.[2]