Rose-Carol Washton Long | |
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| Born | March 1, 1938 New London, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Art historian |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (1983) |
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| Discipline | Art history |
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Rose-Carol Washton Long (born March 1, 1938) is an American art historian and Professor Emeritus of Art History at CUNY Graduate Center.[1]
Born in New London, Connecticut, Long started off as a lecturer and research fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and got her PhD in 1968 at Yale University while working as a lecturer in art history at Queens College, City University of New York, where she would eventually become professor emeritus. A 1983 Guggenheim Fellow, she specializes in German expressionism and Wassily Kandinsky, and has written on both subjects, including the 1980 book Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style.