JACK BUSH | Ex on Spring Green

André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Collection of Eugene Rothkopf, New York (acquired from the above in October 1974)
Private Collection
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in March 1990

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Jack Bush New Paintings, November - December 1974, illustrated in color on the cover
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Jack Bush, November 2014 - February 2015, pl. 117, pp. 232 and 268, illustrated in color

Kirstin Endemann, "Art Exhibits: Nov. 13 to 20," The Ottawa Citizen, 13 November 2014, illustrated in color
James Adams, "A Show that Goes Pow! Pow! Pow! Jack Bush Retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada," The Globe and Mail, 15 November 2014, p. R1, illustrated in color
Peter Simpson, "Abstract and Uplifting," The Ottawa Citizen, 15 November 2014, pp. A1 and F1, illustrated in color
Frédérique Doyon, "Jack Bush, l'avant-gardiste tardif," Le Devoir, 20 December 2014, p. E2, illustrated in color
Bernard Lévy, “Jack Bush: Le roman de la couleur,” Vie des Arts, Vol. LIX, No. 237, Winter 2014/2015, p. 41, illustrated in color
"Bush League," Chatelaine, February 2015, p. 24, illustrated in color
Martin Golland, "Jack Bush," Border Crossings, Vol. 34, No. 2, Issue No. 134, May 2015, p. 85, illustrated in color
Karen Thomson, Ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal 2015, cat. no. 13, p. 22, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There is light evidence of handling along the edges. Under close inspection of the left-to-right downwards diagonal, two faint white abrasion lines are visible. Also under extremely close inspection, some pinpoint and fine losses to the paint are visible, likely a result of drying bubbles form the time of execution. Also under close inspection of the left of the central X form, some scattered embedded fibers are visible. Under Ultraviolet inspection, the aforementioned area fluoresces brightly and a few scattered drip accretions along the bottom of the canvas fluoresce brightly, but none appear to be the result of restoration. Framed.
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"I don't look for anything. It comes to me. I may be walking along a road and I see a mark on the road; it looks interesting, so I try it out as a painting. Or looking at some flowers in the garden—how can I get the feel of those colors, of the flower colors, the nice smell and everything?...I'm not painting flowers. I'm painting the essence, the feeling to me only, not how somebody else feels about those flowers, only me. Then I forget the flowers and make a good painting of it if I can."
Jack Bush

This painting will be included in the forthcoming Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné by Dr. Sarah Stanners.