Rose-Carol Washton Long

Rose-Carol Washton Long (born March 1, 1938) is an American art historian and Professor Emeritus of Art History at CUNY Graduate Center. 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 Dartmouth Big Green.

After graduating from New London High School with high honors in 1955, Long obtained her BA at Wellesley College in 1959.

In 1967, Long began working at Queens College, City University of New York as a lecturer in art history, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1969.

As an academic, Long specializes in German expressionism and Wassily Kandinsky. In 1980, she wrote the book Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style. for "an edition of documents of German Expressionism." 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 BBC Radio documentary Kandinsky and the Russian Revolution. they were married until his death in January 2000.