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| Biography (1909-1977) | ||||
| 1909 | Born in Toronto, March 20 | |||
| 1926-28 | Studied in Montreal with Edmund Byonnet and Adam Sherriff Scott Studied in Toronto under Frederick Challener, John Alfsen and Charles Comfort |
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| 1940-64 | President :Canadian Society of Painter is Water Colour Member: Ontario Society of Artists Associate: Royal Canadian Academy Member: Canadian Group of Painters Member: Painters Eleven (1953-58) Member: Art Directors Club, Toronto |
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| 1964 | Resigned from the above societies | |||
| 1965 | Visiting Artist Michigan State University |
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| 1968 | Visiting Artist Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
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| Selected Exhibitions During Lifetime | ||||
| * indicates one-man exhibition | ||||
| 1936-64 | Exhibited with: Canadian Group of Painters, Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Ontario Society of Artists, Royal Canadian Academy, Art Directors Club and Painters Eleven | |||
| 1945 | Jack Bush and William Winter, Hart House, Toronto | |||
| 1946 | * Trinity College, Toronto Jack Bush and William Winter, Oshawa, Ontario Jacques de Tonnancour, Bourduas, Cahen and Bush, London Art Gallery, London, Ontario |
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| 1949 | * Gavin Henderson Galleries, Toronto | |||
| 1952 | * Roberts Gallery, Toronto First Canadian All Abstract Exhibition, Oshawa, Ontario |
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| 1953 | Abstracts at Home, Simpson’s, Toronto | |||
| 1954 | Painters Eleven, Roberts Gallery, Toronto Painters Eleven, Robertson Gallery, Ottawa |
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| 1955 | Painters Eleven, Roberts Gallery Painters Eleven, Adelaide House, Oshawa |
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| 1955-56 | Traveling Exhibition, St Catharines; London Public Library; Hart House, Toronto, McLaughlin Library, Oshawa; Willistead Gallery, Windsor; Hamilton Gallery, Hamilton | |||
| 1956 | Small Pictures by Painters Eleven, Roberts Gallery, Toronto 20th Annual Exhibition of American Abstract Artists with Painters Eleven of Canada, Riverside Museum, New York Painters Eleven, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto |
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| 1957 | Painters Eleven, The Alan Gallery, Hamilton Points of View, London Library, London (Windsor, Hamilton and Toronto) Painters Eleven and the Work of Ten Distinguished Artists from Quebec, Park Gallery, Toronto |
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| 1959 | * Park Gallery | |||
| 1960 | Painters Eleven, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Painters Eleven, The Stable Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal |
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| 1961 | * Park Gallery Toronto ’61, Toronto (New Design Gallery, Vancouver; Seattle, San Francisco, and The Stable Gallery, Montreal) |
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| 1962 | * Robert Elkon Gallery, New York * Gallery Moos, Toronto Canadian Industries Limited: Art Collection, Contemporary Canadian, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal |
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| 1963 | * Robert Elkon Gallery Jack Bush and Francoise Sullivan Ewen, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 83rd Annual Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Toronto (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s; The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston) Fifth Bievvial of Canadian Painting, The Tate Gallery, London and The National Gallery, Ottawa Fifteen Canadian Artists (organized by the Canadian Advisory Committee with the assistance of the Canada Council and circulated under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York) 81st Annual Spring Exhibition, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |
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| 1964 | * Gallery Moos * Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina * Bennington College, New Gallery, Bennington, Vermon * Robert Elkon Gallery * Waddington Galleries, London, England Post Painterly Abstraction, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Art Gallery of Toronto |
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| 1964-65 | The 1964 Pittsburgh International: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh | |||
| 1965 | * Waddington Galleries 82nd Annual Spring Exhibition, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Colorists 1960-66, The San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting 1965 (organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada) |
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| 1966 | * André Emmerich Gallery, New York * The David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Scarborough College, Toronto Images for a Canadian Heritage, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Jack Bush, Ina Meares, James Gordaneer, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| 1967 | * The Waddington Galleries * André Emmerich Gallery * The David Mirvish Gallery Prize Award Winners 1908-1965 Spring Exhibitions, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Jacques Hurtubise and Jack Bush, Canada at São Paulo 1967, 1x Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil Nine Canadians, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 300 Years of Canadian Art, The National Gallery, Ottawa Painting in Canada, Canadian Government Pavilion, Expo 67/Montreal Statements 18 Canadian Artists 1967, The Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina Ten Decades 1867 – 1967 Ten Painters (an exhibition organized by Paul Russell and Barry Lord for the Rothman’s Art Gallery of Stratford and the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John; a Centennial Commission project of the New Brunswick Museum Department of Art) |
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| 1967-68 | 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |||
| 1968 | * The David Mirvish Gallery Galerie du Siecle, Montreal (Jack Bush, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, Robert Murray) in collaboration with the David Mirvish Gallery, Jack Bush in collaboration with Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal Canada 101, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Canada – Art d’Aujourd’hui, The National Gallery, Ottawa (Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Lausanne) 7th Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, The National Gallery, Ottawa Scarborough College (Noland, Olitski, Louis, Stella, Bush) |
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| 1969 | * Galerie Godard-Lefort, Montreal * Waddington Galleries |
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| 1970 | * The Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery and The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton,
Alberta (retrospective exhibition of 1960-70 paintings) * Harcus/Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts * Andre Emmerich Gallery Form of Color, Toledo Modern Art Group in cooperation with the Toldeo Museum of Art Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Cornegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaColor and Field, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio) The Opening, The David Mirvish Gallery Masters of the Sixties, The Edmonton Art Gallery, The Winnipeg Art Gallery |
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| 1971 | * Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California * The David Mirvish Gallery * Waddington Galleries 49th Parallels – New Canadian Art, John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Galerie Godard-Lefort Harcus-Krakow Gallery |
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| 1972 | * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts * André Emmerich Gallery * David Mirvish Gallery Abstract Painting in the 70s: A Selection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| 1973 | * Andre Emmerich Gallery Painters Eleven, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa * Jack Bush: Works on paper, The Edmonton Art Gallery |
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| 1974 | * Andre Emmerich Gallery, Zurich * David Mirvish Gallery * Waddington Galleries II * Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art 1960-1970, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Ten Years Ago, David Mirvish Gallery Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany Peinters canadiens actuels, Musee d’Art contemporain, Montreal |
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| 1975 | * Jack Pollock Gallery, Toronto * Prints on Price Street, New York * David Mirvish Gallery Works of Art – Old Masters, New Masters, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Galerie Allen, Vancouver |
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| 1975-76 | The Canadian Canvas, Musee d’Art contemporain, Montreal; Musee du Quebec; The Edmonton Art Gallery, The Vancouver Art Gallery; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Anne Leonowens Gallery and Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax; Alberta College of Art Gallery, The Winnipeg Art Gallery | |||
| 1976 | * Waddington Gallery, Montreal | |||
| 1976-77 | Changing Visions: The Canadian Landscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Art Gallery of Windsor; Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal; De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; The Edmonton Art, Calgary; The Winnipeg Art Gallery; Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary; The Vancouver Art Gallery; London Public Library and Art Museum | |||
| Awards | ||||
| 1946 | Rolph Clark Stone Award, Ontario Society of Artists | |||
| 1951 | Art Directors Club Medal, Toronto | |||
| 1953 | J.W.L. Forster Award Ontario Society of Artists |
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| 1954 | Art Directors Club Medal, Toronto | |||
| 1957 | First Prize Canadian Sports Hall of Fame |
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| 1962 | Canadian Council Senior Fellowship or Study in Europe and New York | |||
| 1965 | Grand Award Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Spring Exhibition |
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| 1967 | Albert H. Robinson Prize Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |
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| 1968 | Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting in Canada John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
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| 1976 | Officer of the Order of Canada Fellow of the Ontario College of Art |
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