Background
Sullivan was born in Toronto, Canada, and moved to England at the age of three.
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Sullivan was born in Toronto, Canada, and moved to England at the age of three.
Sullivan was a graduate of Rugby School and graduated from the University of Cambridge in architecture in 1939. He received a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University (1952) and a post-doctoral Bollingen Fellowship.
He subsequently taught in the University of Singapore, and returned to London in the 1960s to teach at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Then he became Christensen Professor of Chinese art in the Department of Art at Stanford University from 1966 to 1984, before moving to the University of Oxford as a Fellow by Special Election at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford. He lived in Oxford, England.
He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for 1973-1974.
Sullivan was a major art collector who owned more than 400 works of art, including paintings by Chinese masters Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, and Wu Guanzhong. His was one of the world"s most significant collections of modern Chinese art
"Review: A Great Leap Forward for Modern Chinese Art History? Recent in China and the United States-A Review Article", Ralph C. Croizier, The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 57, Number. 3 (August, 1998), pp.