Ellen Gates D'Oench (2 October 1930 – 22 May 2009), known as "Puffin", was Curator Emerita of the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
A Wesleyan graduate magna cum laude, she curated the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998.
D'Oench became an expert on the art of Arthur Devis on whom she completed her PhD dissertation at Yale University under the title "Arthur Devis: Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece".
In 2011, an exhibition was held at the Davison Art Center titled "Collecting Photographs: Ellen G.
D’Oench and the Growth of the Collection".
She also wrote about and catalogued the work of Robert F.