Oliver Samuel Tonks

Oliver Samuel Tonks, Ph.D. (1874–1953) was a professor of art at Vassar College. He was born at Malden, Massachusetts, educated at Harvard (A.B., 1898; A.M., 1899; Ph.D., 1903), was instructor in classical Greek in the University of Vermont in 1903–04, lecturer at Columbia in 1904–05, and served at Princeton in 1905–11. He became professor of art at Vassar in 1911. He collaborated in writing The Art Museum and the Public School (1912), and he was a fellow of the American Classical School at Athens in 1901–02.