Tom McGrath

Thomas H. McGrath

Chair and Assistant Professor of Art History

Office:  Fenton 537

Email:  tmcgrath@suffolk.edu

Voicemail:  (617) 573-8286

Professor McGrath holds a B.A. in Art History and Creative Writing from Brandeis University, an M.A. in Art History from Williams College, and a Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University.  His publications range widely in Renaissance art and art theory, notably including: "Facing the Text: Florentine Author Portraits in Printed Books, 1545 to 1585," Word and Image 19, nos. 1-2 (2003): 74-85; "Drawing Practices and Market Forces in Sixteenth-Century Italy," in Coming About: A Festschrift for John Shearman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2001), pp. 235-42; "Color and the Exchange of Ideas between Artist and Patron in Renaissance Italy," Art Bulletin 82, no. 2 (June 2000): 298-308; and "Color in Italian Renaissance Drawings: Reconciling Theory and Practice in Central Italy and Venice," Apollo 146, no. 429 (1997): 22-30.