b"Jack Bush: London #12Jack Bush (19091977) was one of the founding members of the Painters Eleven group and also one of the few Canadians of his generation to have a successful international careerperhaps in part by his long-lasting friendship with the influential critic Clement Greenberg whom he met in 1957, who encouraged him to simplify his compositions using all-over coverage of thinly applied bright colours, incorporating smooth opaque streaks of bars of colour or simple geometric shapes.Bushs work is characterised by the artists intuitive use of surface handling and colour. His abstraction had a tenuous link to the visible world, finding inspiration in the everyday. Gardens, flags, window displays, totems and music are applied to his work in an instinctive and curious way.London #12 is a dynamic example of Jack Bush's later work, and an excellent example of Bushs rolled grounds where to artist would use partially mixed paint applied to the canvas and roll the paint with a paint roller. The coloured shapes serve to anchor the ground and to create visual depth. This work was part of the London Series of paintings begun in the spring and summer of 1973 for a one-man exhibition at Waddington Galleries in London.London #12 has an important provenance, having been in one of the major American collection of early supporters of Jack Bush who had an extensive collection of the artists work."