Lucy Jarvis

Lucy Mary Hope Jarvis (July 27, 1896 – May 24, 1985) was a Canadian painter, educator, Jarvis studied art at Havergal Ladies College and at the art school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where she became committed to social realism.

She taught at Kings Hall in Compton, Quebec and at the Provincial Normal School in Fredericton. From 1935 to 1936, she worked as a cataloguer and draftsman for the Royal Ontario Museum.

In 1941, Jarvis and MacLeod publicized the Centre, describing their work teaching there, Jarvis for the first issue of Maritime Art magazine, MacLeod in a letter to Harry McCurry, the director of the National Gallery of Canada. MacLeod ran the summer school at the Observatory Art Centre for eight years (1941-1948), Her vision and efforts shaped the character of the Centre. Her studies in France turned her into a modernist.

In 1961, she established a studio at Pembroke Dyke. Jarvis died there at the age of 88. the New Brunswick Museum, Jarvis worked in pastels, watercolours and oil.

Personal life Jarvis met Helen Weld in 1925 at the Boston Museum School. They were together much of the rest of their lives.