Jarvis, Alan
https://collections.arquives.ca/link/verticalfile27970
- Data Source
- Vertical Files
- Material Type
- Person files
- City
- Toronto
- Province / State
- ON
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Coverage
- Canada / US
- Notes
- 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.
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2010-071