Jack Bush Offset Lithograph Exhibition Poster for André Emmerich Gallery

Item Details

Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters

An offset lithograph print on paper exhibition poster for Jack Bush Paintings 1959-1974 held October 7th-25th, 1978 at André Emmerich Gallery in New York City. The poster features an image after Bush’s original 1959 oil painting Blue-Green Thrust and produced by Posters Original Limited. The work remains unmounted and unframed.

Jack Bush is best known for being one of the leading exponents of abstract art and color field painting during the mid-20th century. He was widely celebrated for becoming the first Canadian artist that transitioned from an aesthetic bond with two groups- the Canadian Group of Painters and Painters Eleven- to an even stronger association with modernist abstraction and color field painting. He had his formal artistic training as an apprentice in his hometown at the Art Department of the Rapid Grip Company in Montreal. At 17 years old he took classes under the teaching of the artist Adam Sheriff Scott (1887–1980) and posteriorly he went on to study at the Art Association of Montreal with Edmond Dyonnet (1859 – 1954). He further pursued his artistic career and moved to Toronto, refining his technique while working as a commercial artist and continuing his education at the Ontario College of Art, working under the likes of renowned Canadian artists John William Beatty, Charles Comfort, and James Edmund Hervey MacDonald, artist that was part of The Group of Seven, society of influential Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933.

Condition

- faint discoloration present throughout; poster has been stored rolled up.

Dimensions

- measures the sheet; print size 21.5" W x 47.5" H.

Item #

17DCC306-382