Assistant Professor, Status Only, Department of Art History, University of Toronto; Canadian Historical Decorative Arts, Royal Ontario Museum
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Art and culture, Canada
Biography
Ross Fox is a decorative arts and material culture specialist who retired from the ROM in December 2011, where he was the curator responsible for Canadian Decorative Arts. He remains a ROM Research Associate and is an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Fine Arts, University of Toronto. Though primarily a Canadianist, Fox also has extensive experience with the fine and decorative arts of Europe and the United States, particularly of the 18th and 19th centuries. Previously he was associated with the Mead Art Museum (Amherst College, Massachusetts), Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ontario), National Gallery of Canada, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Education
PhD, University of Missouri, Art History and Archaeology, 1987
MA, Wayne State University, Museology, 1975
BA (Hons), University of Windsor, Art History, 1972