b'Jack Bush: Mainly Tan In May 1999, I looked at my Jack Bush inventory and realized I had a Sash Exhibition and I think that at the time I did not fully comprehend that this would be an impossible exhibition to recreate. Included in the show the magical Tout Blanc, a rare 34.25 x 36.3 inches from 1965, Rose Red and Red (1966), another Sao Paulo entry with glorious colour, and the coupe de grace another Biennale entry, Mainly Tan, an epic work of the period (1966, 85.6 x 80 inches), which is here today some 24 years later. At the time I wrote the emergence of the Sash paintings in 1963 is a point of resolution for Jack Bush and marks the beginning of the mature Bush period of some short 14 years before his death in 1977.The Sash as an iconography has several forms, waisted, ladders, fishtails, etc., all of which are the gateway for a decade of hard-edged work and a vehicle for his complex and always unique colour ranges. His final decade of the 1970s led to a looser, more expressionist or painterly rolled grounds in various forms. As an iconography, the Sash works are now finally embedded in Canadian Post-War lexicon, recognized early, they will continue to emerge almost single handedly as part of the historical canon. -Miriam Shiell Toronto, 2023'