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The Art History Archive - Canadian Art
Abstract Painter
Biography by Robert Campbell - 2008.
Jack John Hamilton Bush was born in Toronto, Ontario on March 20 1909, but he spent most of his childhood in Montreal, where he studied at the Royal Canadian Academy.
Here he was schooled by Adam Sheriff Scott and Edmond Dynnet from 1926-1928 in the basic principles of art, and he was very skilled.
As a twenty year old man, Jack began his professional career as a landscape artist in 1929.
Jack hamilton bush biography
At first he painted mostly landscapes and was clearly influenced by the Group of Seven.
Early in his career, Jack Bush was particularly inspired by the work of Charles Comfort, who was one to become one of his instructors at OCA.
The son of Scottish immigrants that settled near Winnipeg in 1912, Charles Comfort worked in commercial art in Winnipeg before moving to Toronto in 1928. One year later, in 1929, Charles hosted weekly two hour lif