Pamela Askew (February 2, 1925 – June 24, 1997) was an American art historian who wrote influential works on

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. Askew's father was Arthur McComb, Professor of baroque art at

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, and author of the influential ''Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works'' (1928). She grew up in

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with her mother, Constance, and step-father, R. Kirk Askew Jr., a

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art dealer. She did undergraduate studies at Vassar College, followed by an MA in Art History at the

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, with a thesis on

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. She took her Ph.D. from the

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, in 1954, under

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with work on

. On March 26, 1955, she married Timothy John Oswald Mosley, an Englishman educated at

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, who had served in the

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. She returned to teach at Vassar, becoming a full professor in 1969. She died of

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in 1997.

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Askew, Pamela 1925 births 1997 deaths American art historians 20th-century American historians American women art historians Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art 20th-century American women writers