Donald Alvin Jarvis RCA, CGP, BCSA, FCA (1923 - 2001). Don Jarvis was a painter and educator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and lived there most of his life. He died in Sechelt,... Read full biography
Donald Alvin Jarvis RCA, CGP, BCSA, FCA (1923 - 2001). Don Jarvis was a painter and educator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and lived there most of his life. He died in Sechelt, B.C. (about 40 minutes by ferry from Vancouver). His mediums were oil, watercolour, acrylic, and... Read full biography
Donald Alvin Jarvis RCA, CGP, BCSA, FCA (1923 - 2001). Don Jarvis was a painter and educator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and lived there most of his life. He died in Sechelt, B.C. (about 40 minutes by ferry from Vancouver). His mediums were oil, watercolour, acrylic, and mixed mediums. His subjects are; abstracts, west coast landscapes (especially forests), urban life (people and buildings), social commentary, the human situation and figures. His styles are abstract... Read full biography
Donald Alvin Jarvis RCA, CGP, BCSA, FCA (1923 - 2001). Don Jarvis was a painter and educator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and lived there most of his life. He died in Sechelt, B.C. (about 40 minutes by ferry from Vancouver). His mediums were oil, watercolour, acrylic, and mixed mediums. His subjects are; abstracts, west coast landscapes (especially forests), urban life (people and buildings), social commentary, the human situation and figures. His styles are abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction, semi abstraction, expressionism, fauvism and realism. Quote: "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... Read full biography
Donald Alvin Jarvis RCA, CGP, BCSA, FCA (1923 - 2001). Don Jarvis was a painter and educator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and lived there most of his life. He died in Sechelt, B.C. (about 40 minutes by ferry from Vancouver). His mediums were oil, watercolour, acrylic, and mixed mediums. His subjects are; abstracts, west coast landscapes (especially forests), urban life (people and buildings), social commentary, the human situation and figures. His styles are abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction, semi abstraction, expressionism, fauvism and realism. Quote: "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 th... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (30)
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Color Creates Light: Studies With Hans Hoffman
2011
Dickey, Tina
424 pages (color)
B.C. Binning (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Rogatnick, Abraham J.; Ian M. Thom, Adele Weder
180 pages (color)
A Modern Life - Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Thom, Ian and Alan Elder, editors
176 pages (color)
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
Who's Who in America 2001-2002 55th Edition (Vol 1)
2000
Brooks, Maurice (Ed)
2,987 pages
Encyclopedia of British Columbia
2000
Francis, Daniel (Editor)
806 pages
Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia
2000
Thom, Ian
232 pages (color)
64-94: Contemporary Decades (Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design)
1994
Carter, Sam et al
160 pages (color)
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991
Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson
1,557 pages (color)
Jack Shadbolt
1990
Watson, Scott
243 pages (color)
Vancouver School of Art: The Growth Years, 1939-1965
1983
Lindberg, E. Theodore, Augaitis Daina and Elsa Schamis
48 pages (color)
Vancouver: Art and Artists, 1931-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Rombout, Luke
440 pages (color)
Printmaking in British Columbia, 1889-1983 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1983
Tuele, Nicholas, Leslie Dawn and Greg Bellerby
64 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, Fifteenth Edition, 1982
1982
R.R. Bowker Co. (Editors)
1,204 pages
20th Century Canadian Drawings
1979
Morris, Jerrold
107 pages
Contemporary Works on Paper by B.C. Artists (Traveling Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Graham, Colin
36 pages (color)
Coasts, the Sea and Canadian Art
1978
Varley, Christopher and Jeffrey Spaulding
96 pages
From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape
1977
Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole
159 pages (color)
B.C. Artists' Tribute to Colin Graham (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria)
1974
Harvey, Donald
16 pages
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes)
1974
MacDonald, Colin, S.
3,667 pages
Four Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and their Contemporaries, 1930-1970
1972
Duval, Paul
192 pages (color)
Canadian Art Today
1970
Townsend, William
114 pages (color)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University at Kingston
1968
Smith, Frances K.
195 pages
Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, 1965 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Townsend, William
47 pages (color)
The Development of Canadian Art (The National Gallery of Canada)
1964
Hubbard, R.H.
137 pages (color)
The Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Art, 1961 (National Gallery of Canada)
1961
James, Philip et al
28 pages
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
463 pages
Ten West Coast Painters/The Art of Emily Carr
1960
McNaim, Ian
16 pages
7 West Coast Painters (University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery)