Jack Hamilton Bush, called Jack, was born in Toronto, 1909 and raised in Montreal. After finishing high school, he became an apprentice in the Art Department of the Rapid Grip Company in Montreal,... Read full biography
Jack Hamilton Bush, called Jack, was born in Toronto, 1909 and raised in Montreal. After finishing high school, he became an apprentice in the Art Department of the Rapid Grip Company in Montreal, where his father was a manager. Between 1926 and 1927, he studied with Adam Sheriff Scott, and... Read full biography
Jack Hamilton Bush, called Jack, was born in Toronto, 1909 and raised in Montreal. After finishing high school, he became an apprentice in the Art Department of the Rapid Grip Company in Montreal, where his father was a manager. Between 1926 and 1927, he studied with Adam Sheriff Scott, and attended night school at the Art Association of Montreal under Edmond Dyonnet in 1927-28. For career reasons, he moved to Toronto in 1928 where he attended evening classes at the Ontario College of Art,... Read full biography
Jack Hamilton Bush, called Jack, was born in Toronto, 1909 and raised in Montreal. After finishing high school, he became an apprentice in the Art Department of the Rapid Grip Company in Montreal, where his father was a manager. Between 1926 and 1927, he studied with Adam Sheriff Scott, and attended night school at the Art Association of Montreal under Edmond Dyonnet in 1927-28. For career reasons, he moved to Toronto in 1928 where he attended evening classes at the Ontario College of Art, studying among others under John William Beatty, Charles Comfort, and James Edmund Hervey MacDonald. By 1950, Bush was experimenting with abstraction and was exhibiting in various group shows. In 1952 he visited New York, mainly to see first-hand some of... Read full biography
Jack Hamilton Bush, called Jack, was born in Toronto, 1909 and raised in Montreal. After finishing high school, he became an apprentice in the Art Department of the Rapid Grip Company in Montreal, where his father was a manager. Between 1926 and 1927, he studied with Adam Sheriff Scott, and attended night school at the Art Association of Montreal under Edmond Dyonnet in 1927-28. For career reasons, he moved to Toronto in 1928 where he attended evening classes at the Ontario College of Art, studying among others under John William Beatty, Charles Comfort, and James Edmund Hervey MacDonald. By 1950, Bush was experimenting with abstraction and was exhibiting in various group shows. In 1952 he visited New York, mainly to see first-hand some of the works that were being produced there and which he had only seen in reproduction. That same... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art
2010
Nowell, Iris
384 pages (color)
Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
2009
Chilvers, Ian and John Glaves-Smith
776 pages
Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
2007
Newlands, Anne
366 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art (Art Gallery of Ontario) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Cheetham, Mark; Matthew Teitelbaum, David Moos
120 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Sixties in Canada (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Leclerc, Denise; Pierre Dessureault; National Gallery of Canada
188 pages (color)
Vancouver Collects (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Thom, Ian et al
159 pages (color)
Clement Greenburg: A Critic's Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Wilkin, Karen and Bruce Guenther
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes)
1993
Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor
622 pages
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990
Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)
230 pages (color)
Cineplex Odeon The First Ten Years: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Art
1989
Burnett, David
97 pages (color)
The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
1989
Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis
122 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Agnes Etherington Art Centre: Exhibitions in Review, 1987-1988 (Agnes Etherinton Art Centre)
1988
Bell, Michael et al
122 pages
Industrial Images (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario) (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Donegan, Rosemary
143 pages
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition)
1988
Reid, Dennis
418 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Grand Compositions the Collection of David Mirvish (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Upright, Diane
106 pages (color)
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
Jack Bush
1984
Wilkin, Karen (editor)
215 pages (color)
Canadian Art in Britain: Contemporary Works from Collections in Britain
1982
Shepherd, Michael
56 pages (color)
O Kanada (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stacey, R.H., Barbara Volkmann, Rose-France Raddata
407 pages
Selections from the Westburne Collection (Edmonton Art Gallery)
1982
Wilkin, Karen
48 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Twenty Painters/Twenty Paintings: Contemporary Canadian Art
1979
Lipman, Marci; Louise Lipman
48 pages (color)
Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978
Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken
119 pages (color)
A Canadian Survey: Selected Works from the Collection of Imperial Oil Limited (Art Gallery of Ontario)
1978
Moses, Gerry
52 pages (color)
Eighteen Contemporary Masters (United States Embassy, Ottawa)
1977
Enders, Gaetana
23 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
The Great Decade of American Abstraction (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Carmean, E A Jr
138 pages (color)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973
1973
Reid, Dennis
319 pages (color)
Contemporary Canadian Painting
1972
Withrow, William
224 pages (color)
Canadian Art Today
1970
Townsend, William
114 pages (color)
The Canada Council Collection (National Gallery of Canada)
1969
Thompson, David
64 pages (color)
Statements: 18 Canadian Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Curator, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
99 pages
Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967
Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy
254 pages (color)
The Ontario Centennial Art Exhibition (Ontario Council for the Arts)
1967
Robertson, Bryan
60 pages
Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art
1966
Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld
128 pages (color)
Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, 1965 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Townsend, William
47 pages (color)
Fifteen Canadian Artists (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
1963
Turner, Evan H.; William J. Withrow
48 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index