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Donald Alvin Jarvis

Donald Alvin Jarvis (1923 - 2001) was active/lived in British Columbia / Canada.  Donald Jarvis is known for Abstract, tree landscape, social genre painting.

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 the paper. I am not a 'creator'……" Don Jarvis 1999.
 
He graduated from the Vancouver Scho   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4778 characters.]  Artist bio

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