| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations, portraits |
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McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; #2 |
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McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; #2.
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| Contents |
1. "A Walking Work of Art": Introduction -- 2. "A Curiously Mixed Background": Family and Childhood, 1915-1934 -- 3. "Douglas Duncan Invented Me": Undergraduate, 1934-1938 -- 4. "I May Come Home with an Accent -- God Forbid": Europe, Oxford, and Darrington, 1938-1939 -- 5. "The Dead Days": Toronto and New York City, 1939-1941 -- 6. "Up to My Ears in the Business World": England, 1942-1945 -- 7. "To Build a New Kind of Society": The Council of Industrial Design, 1945-1947 -- 8. "A Break in a Million": Pilgrim Pictures, 1948-1950 -- 9. "I Certainly Hope 1950 Will Be Different": Oxford House, 1950-1955 -- 10. "A Museum without Walls": The National Gallery of Canada, 1955-1956 -- 11. "A Chamber of Horrors": The National Gallery of Canada, 1957-1959 -- 12. "Canada's Most Outspoken and Witty Man About the Arts": Toronto, 1960-1968 -- 13. "We Have Lost Our Sheep Dog": The Last Years, 1968-1972 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Jarvis, Alan, 1915-1972.
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Jarvis, Alan, 1915-1972 |
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National Gallery of Canada -- History
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National Gallery of Canada |
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Art museum directors -- Canada -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- Permanent Collections.
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ART -- Museum Studies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Art museum directors
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773575837 |
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0773575839 |
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1282866303 |
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9781282866300 |
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9780773582545 |
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0773582541 |
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9786612866302 |
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6612866306 |
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