Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis by Andrew Horrall performing arts Handcoloured lithograph on paper

Handcoloured lithograph on paper

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Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis by Andrew Horrall performing arts Handcoloured lithograph on paper8vo. 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