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1909 Toronto, Canada - 1977 Toronto, Canada. Known for: Color field abstract painting.
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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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Color Field Painting
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Non Objective Subject
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
Art Association
- •Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour
- •Painters Eleven
Art Teacher
- •Adam Sherriff Scott
- •Charles Comfort
- •Edmond Dyonnet
- •James Edward Hervey Macdonald (J.E.H.)
- •John William Beatty
Art School
- •Ontario College of Art and Design (Toronto), Student
- •School of the Art Association of Montreal, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Art Toronto
- •Sao Paulo Bienniale
- •Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, National Gallery
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Gallery of Ontario
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Fifteen Canadian Artists, Museum of Modern Art, 1963
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Post Painterly Abstraction, 1964, Clement Greenberg