Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis by Andrew Horrall performing arts map & to front flyleaf)

map & to front flyleaf)

By Thelma Golden et al

Handcoloured lithograph on paper

Regina Seiden

Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis by Andrew Horrall performing arts map & to front flyleaf)8vo. pp. 457. b&w text illustrations & 8 double sided colour plates. bibliography. index. bds. dw. Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, [2009]. In 1959, Alan Jarvis the brilliant and charismatic director of the National Gallery of Canada was forced to resign following a disagreement with the government over the purchase of works by European Old Masters. He never fully recovered from this dismissal, or the public humiliation that