Jeff A. Webb is a professor and head of the Department of History at Memorial University.

Lynda Jessup, Queen’s University:
“The Cause of Art is a breakthrough study that establishes the key role played by the Memorial University of Newfoundland Art Gallery in the emergence of a vital visual arts community in post-Confederation Newfoundland. Jeff A. Webb situates this history in the broader processes of modernization and the development of the administrative state in both the new province and the emerging nation of Canada it joined in 1949. Engaging and insightful, The Cause of Art is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the cultural state in Canada.”