Bringing Art to Life

Bringing Art to Life

Author: Andrew Horrall

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2009-09-14

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 0773575839

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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 followed, succumbing to alcoholism in a little over a decade.