ARCA CGP CSGA CSPWC OSA P11
1909 - 1977
Canadian
White Horses
oil on board
signed and dated 1949 and on verso titled on various labels including the Jack Bush Art Estate label and inscribed "P-78"
17 1/4 x 23 3/4 in, 43.8 x 60.3 cm
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 CAD
Sold for: $14,500
Preview at: Heffel Calgary - 220 Manning Road NE, Unit 1080
PROVENANCE
Estate of the Artist
Waddington's Auction, November 28, 2019, Lot 95
Private Collection, Winnipeg
LITERATURE
New Paintings By Jack Bush, Gavin Henderson Galleries, 1949, catalogue #25
Jack Burtch, Jack Bush – Hymn to the Sun, Early Work, Art Gallery of Algoma, 1997, reproduced page 51
Sarah Stanners, Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 1, 1920-1954, 2024, listed page 356 and reproduced page 357, catalogue #1.179.1949.81
EXHIBITED
Gavin Henderson Galleries, Toronto, New Paintings By Jack Bush, October 17-29, 1949
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault St. Marie, Ontario, Jack Bush – Hymn to the Sun, Early Work, May 1 – June 22, 1977, traveling in 1997 - 1999 to Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; the Art Gallery of Newfoundland, St. John’s; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Hart House, University of Toronto; Laurentian University, Museum and Art Gallery, Sudbury; MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie; and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art, Calgary
This work is included in Stanners’ recently published Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, as catalogue #1.179.1949.81
Jack Bush’s October 1949 show at the Gavin Henderson Galleries in Toronto marked the end of a hiatus, as Bush’s work had not been shown in a solo exhibition for about two years. Sarah Stanners described the show as “a ‘coming out’ or announcement of Bush's new direction in painting,” noting the exhibition pamphlet described the works as “provocative.” Six paintings from the pivotol 1949 exhbition are now in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
This work was also included in the Art Gallery of Algoma’s exhibition Jack Bush – Hymn to the Sun, a celebration of Bush’s pre-abstract work that toured Canada in the late 1990s.
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