Donald Jarvis
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Born | Donald Alvin Jarvis April 24, 1923 Vancouver School of Art (1941-1942) (1946-1948); Hans Hofmann , New York (1948) |
Don Jarvis RCA (1923–2001) was a Canadian abstract painter.
Career
Born in
When he graduated in 1948, Jarvis won a
In 1961, he received a Canada Council Select Arts Fellowship and he was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1967.[5] He was also a member of the Canadian Group of Painters and the British Columbia Group of Artists.[1] In 1999,he said:
"I see the painter as an instrument, a function, a conduit of the essential unity. My work is metaphor, never simile. I make no distinction between subject and object, inner and outer, maker and viewer. I am continually surprised by what arises on the canvas or the paper. I am not a 'creator'. How can one create what is already there? I am mist, trees, rain, sun brush, canvas, weather, season, figure."
Personal life
Jarvis died of heart disease on March 22, 2001
Notes
- ^ a b c d MacDonald, Colin S. (1991). A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 3 (Thirdt ed.). Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publishing. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ISBN 9781553653943. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Collection". collectionlegacy.uvic.ca. U Victoria. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ^ "B.C.Artists". www.sim-publishing.com. Sim Publishing Co. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.