Jack Hamilton Bush
(1909 - 1977) Painters Eleven, OSA, ARCA
Previously Sold Works
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Five Colour Prints (1965 Portfolio)
complete set of five colour serigraphs
“Red Sash- New York 1962”, “Red Stripes- New York 1962”, “Red Orange Green- 1963”, “Nice Pink- 1965”, “Stripes to the Right- 1965”; each signed, dated 1965 and numbered 57/100, housed in the original portfolio
26 x 20.5 ins ( 66 x 52.1 cms ) ( each )
Sold for $57,500.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Ochre Blue Square
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1962 lower left; signed, titled and dated 1962 on the reverse
30 x 24 ins ( 76.2 x 61 cms )
Sold for $30,680.00
Sale date: May 28th 2019
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Summer Afternoon/The Lovers
oil on board
signed and dated 1951 lower right
30 x 40 ins ( 76.2 x 101.6 cms )
Sold for $28,320.00
Sale date: May 28th 2019
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
The Broken Window
oil on masonite
signed and dated 1950 upper left; “Jack Bush Art Estate” and “Jack Bush Heritage Corporation” labels attached to the reverse
26 x 20 ins ( 66 x 50.8 cms )
Sold for $23,600.00
Sale date: November 20th 2018
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Summer Lake
acrylic on canvas
signed “Jack Bush - Toronto”, titled and dated January 1973 on the reverse
49.75 x 68.25 ins ( 126.4 x 173.4 cms )
Sold for $310,500.00
Sale date: May 29th 2014
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Pink on Red (Thrust)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1961 lower left; signed “Jack Bush - Toronto”, titled and dated on the reverse
79 x 79.25 ins ( 200.7 x 201.3 cms )
Sold for $299,000.00
Sale date: May 29th 2014
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Quarter Moon
gouache on paper
signed and dated 1975 lower right; signed and inscribed “Jack Bush – Toronto”, titled and dated June 1975 on the reverse
29 x 21 ins ( 73.7 x 53.3 cms )
Sold for $41,400.00
Sale date: May 28th 2015
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Purple Thrust
colour serigraph
signed, dated 1974 and numbered 36/100 in the lower left margin
34.25 x 25.5 ins ( 87 x 64.8 cms ) ( sight )
Sold for $8,740.00
Sale date: December 6th 2017
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Green Loop
colour silkscreen
signed, dated 1971, and numbered 84/100 lower right
22.75 x 30 ins ( 57.8 x 76.2 cms ) ( sight )
Sold for $6,900.00
Sale date: March 8th 2017
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Three and Blue Loop
colour serigraph
signed, dated 1971 and numbered X/XV in the lower margin
33.75 x 25.25 ins ( 85.7 x 64.1 cms ) ( sheet )
Sold for $4,830.00
Sale date: June 14th 2017
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Orange, Pink, Brown
colour silkscreen
signed, dated 1965, numbered 100/100 and inscribed “Toronto” lower right
26 x 20 ins ( 66 x 50.8 cms )
Sold for $4,956.00
Sale date: July 16th 2019
JACK HAMILTON BUSH
Friday Morning
colour silkscreen
signed, dated 1968 and numbered 25/150 in the lower margin
19.25 x 23.75 ins ( 48.9 x 60.3 cms ) ( sight )
Sold for $3,220.00
Sale date: December 14th 2016
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Jack Bush Biography
(1909 - 1977) Painters Eleven, OSA, ARCA
A founding member of the Painters Eleven group and the subject of major retrospectives at the Art Gallery of Ontario (1976) and the National Gallery of Canada (2014), John Hamilton (Jack) Bush (born March 20, 1909 in Toronto; died January 24, 1977 in Toronto) was one of Canada’s most influential artists. Among the first Canadian painters of his generation to achieve international success in his lifetime, Bush was a masterful draftsman and colourist whose works are coveted by major institutions and private collectors throughout the world. Born in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto in 1909, Bush spent his childhood in London, Ontario, and Montréal, Québec, where he studied at the Royal Canadian Academy and apprenticed as a commercial artist in his father’s business, Rapid Electro Type Company. After relocating in 1928 to work in the firm’s Toronto offices, his interest in fine art grew through contact with members of the Group of Seven, the Ontario Society of Artists, and the Canadian Group of Painters. Working as a commercial artist by day, Bush painted and took night classes at the Ontario College of Art (now the Ontario College of Art and Design University) throughout the 1930s, studying under Frederick Challener, John Alfsen, George Pepper, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Charles Comfort. After forming the commercial design firm Wookey, Bush and Winter in 1942 with partners Leslie Wookey and William Winter, Bush remained engaged in the graphic art world until his retirement in 1968.
Like many of his contemporaries in Toronto, Bush had little exposure to international trends of modernism during his formative years as a painter. For nearly two decades, he drew inspiration for his landscape and figural paintings from works by members of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Canadian Group of Painters. Though he began to incorporate non-representational elements in his work in the late 1940s, Bush’s more focused experimentations with formal abstraction in the early 1950s reveal the conspicuous influence of his eventual encounters with modern artwork in Toronto and New York City. In 1953, Bush joined the newly-founded Toronto artist group Painters Eleven. Through his involvement in the group’s efforts to promote abstract painting in Canada, Bush met the influential New York City art critic Clement Greenberg. Their resulting friendship would influence Bush’s early development as an abstract painter, with Greenberg serving as an occasional mentor to the artist, encouraging him to abandon his Abstract Expressionist style in favour of a brighter, more refined palette and technique. Through his association with Painters Eleven, Bush became closely tied to Colour Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction—two movements that had evolved from Abstract Expressionism. After the group disbanded in 1959, Bush’s distinguished career was marked by numerous achievements, including the opportunity to represent Canada at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1967, after which his art found considerable commercial success in the United States (Bush had already been showing his work in New York City since 1962). In 1972, Bush was the subject of the inaugural survey exhibition in the modern wing of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Four years later, the Art Gallery of Ontario organized a major touring retrospective of his work. Jack Bush died at the age of 68 in 1977, one year after he received the honour of Officer of the Order of Canada.