Download or read book Bringing Art to Life written by Andrew Horrall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.