Background
She grew up in New York City with her mother, Constance, and step-father, R. Kirk Askew Junior., a Park Avenue art dealer.
She grew up in New York City with her mother, Constance, and step-father, R. Kirk Askew Junior., a Park Avenue art dealer.
She took her Doctor of Philosophy from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in 1954, under Johannes Wilde with work on Domenico Fetti.
Askew"s father was Arthur McComb, Professor of baroque art at Vassar and Harvard Universities, and author of the influential Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works (1928). She did undergraduate studies at Vassar College, followed by an Master of Arts in Art History at the Institute of Fine Art in New York, with a thesis on Perino del Vaga. She returned to teach at Vassar, becoming a full professor in 1969.
She died of lymphoma in 1997.
Askew, Pamela (June 1978). "Ferdinando Gonzaga"s Patronage of the Pictorial Arts: The Villa Favorita".
The Art Bulletin 60 (2): 274–296. doi:10.2307/3049783. Askew, Pamela (February 1978).
"Fetti"s "Portrait of an Actor" Reconsidered".
The Burlington Magazine 120 (899): 59–65. Askew, Pamela (1969). "The Angelic Consolation of Saint Francis of Assisi in Post-Tridentine Italian Painting".
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 32: 280–306. doi:10.2307/750615.
Askew, Pamela (June 1961). "Fetti"s "Martyrdom" at the Wadsworth Atheneum".
The Burlington Magazine 103 (699): 245–252. Askew, Pamela (March 1961).
"The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti".
The Art Bulletin (College Art Association) 43 (1): 21–45. doi:10.2307/3047929. JSTOR 3047929.