Rose-Carol Washton Long (born March 1, 1938) is an American art historian and Professor Emeritus of Art History at

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. Born in

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, Long started off as a lecturer and research fellow at the

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and got her PhD in 1968 at

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while working as a lecturer in art history at

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, where she would eventually become professor emeritus. A 1983

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, she specializes in

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and

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, and has written on both subjects, including the books '' Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style'' and '' German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism''.

Biography

Rose-Carol Washton was born on March 1, 1938, in

. She was one of the three daughters of Alice ( Gordon) and Abram A. Washton ( Watchinsky), a Jewish Columbia-educated lawyer in New London who was chair of the city's Democratic Town Committee and boxed for the

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. After graduating from New London High School with high honors in 1955, Long obtained her BA at

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in 1959. After getting her MA at

in 1962, she worked at the

as a lecturer and research fellow from 1964 until 1967. She returned to Yale to get her PhD in Fine Arts in 1968; her dissertation, ''Vasily Kandinsky, 1909–1913: Painting and Theory'', in which Kandinsky's widow

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was interviewed, was supervised by Robert L. Herbert. In 1967, Long began working at

as a lecturer in art history, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1969. She began working at

in 1971 and was a

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Fellow for the 1972-1973 period. She was promoted to associate professor in 1979 and professor in 1984. She retired from teaching in the early-2010s, and she was promoted to professor emeritus. She was president of the Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture when they became a

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affiliate in 1997. As an academic, Long specializes in

and

. In 1980, she wrote the book '' Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style''. She was appointed a

in 1983, for "an edition of documents of German Expressionism." In 1995, she published '' German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism'', a book on the

movement during the Weimar era, as part of UC Press' ''Documents of Twentieth Century Art'' series. She has also written academic articles, essays, and chapters on Kandinsky and German expressionism, served as an anthology editor, and appeared as an interviewee on the 2017

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documentary ''Kandinsky and the Russian Revolution''. On March 28, 1970, she married Carl D. Long, then a management consultant at

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; they were married until his death in January 2000. She and her partner, playwright Walter Corwin, live in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. She is also a member of The New Shul, a

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synagogue in the

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Bibliography

*'' Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style'' (1980) *'' German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism'' (1995)

References

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