Jack Bush

Jack Bush (1909–1977) was born in Toronto and resided there for most of his life. His artistic practice is felt across Canada, as well as in London (UK), and especially New York. Included in Clement Greenberg’s seminal Post Painterly Abstraction (1964) exhibition, as well as a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1972), Bush remains a celebrated Colour Field artist. His beginnings, however, were beholden to the Group of Seven: he worked as a commercial artist by day and painted landscapes in his off time. He was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters (CGP), Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA), Ontario Society of Artists (OSA), and later Painters Eleven; from the 1960s on, he established a prolific painting and printmaking practice.