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13 Facts About Jack Bush
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Jack Bush began his professional career as a landscape artist and focused on painting them.
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Jack Bush attended Charles Comfort's weekly life model drawing sessions, hosted in Comfort's studio in Toronto.
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Jack Bush developed his work and approach to abstraction through the 1950s.
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Jack Bush was a member of Painters Eleven, an influential group founded by William Ronald in 1954 to promote abstract painting in Canada and was encouraged in his art by the American art critic Clement Greenberg.
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Critical at first, Greenberg became a mentor to Jack Bush and encouraged him to refine his palette, technique, and approach.
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Jack Bush told Bush to seek in his oil painting the thinness and clarity of colour and the simplicity of his works on paper.
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Jack Bush's work is based on an abstract record of his perception.
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Jack Bush became friends with artists associated with color-field like Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland and Anthony Caro.
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Jack Bush represented Canada at the 1967 Sao Paulo Art Biennial, and in 1976 the Art Gallery of Ontario toured a large retrospective of his work.
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Jack Bush died in Toronto at the age of 67 on 24 January 1977.
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In 1979, two years later, the National Film Board of Canada released a one-hour documentary Jack Bush, directed by Murray Battle.
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Jack Bush once said to his peer and friend Kenneth Noland:.