DR. TOM DEWEY
Associate Professor of Art
Art History

PhD, Wisconsin at Madison
BA, MA, University of Southern Illinois
email: tdewey@olemiss.edu

Courses:19th and-20th century Art, Southern Art and Architecture, History of Prints, History of Photography, Art Theory and Criticism.

Appointed to the faculty in 1976, Dr. Dewey has written catalog essays and prepared entire catalogues for 15 regional, national, and international exhibitions of paintings, prints, and other works on paper, plus 19th and 20th-century decorative arts. Elected archivist for the Southern Graphics Council in 1977, he built an archives, prints and drawings study collection (numbering c. 500 works), slide registry, and a video and audio tape collection devoted to printmaking in the South from roughly 1960 to the present. In 1993, he began negotiations with the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., for duplicating portions of the above-described archives for inclusion into the National Archives.

He has numerous publications and has presented nearly 40 conference research papers. His recent publications and conference papers encompass contemporary Southern printmaking; 19th-century Southern architecture; the themes of horse racing, ballet, and prostitution in the work of Edgar Degas and his contemporaries; the International Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts, Paris 1925; critical essays on major 19th and 20th-century European painters and architects, plus major Modern Movement buildings. These essays were for new encyclopedias and other reference works from 1989-1993. Beginning in 1992, he started a program of promoting young scholars by co-authoring with graduate students articles for publication and conference research papers for presentations.