Great Artists - Jack Bush...

'Striped Column' by Jack Bush

Hi ! here are the latest stamps issued by Canada on 20 March 2009 depicting the masterpieces of Great artist ,Jack Bush.It also marks 100 years of the artist's birth.The series is referred to as Masterpieces of Canadian Art. All the items issued for this issue are magnificent and sure to attract the art lovers as well as those collecting stamps on art and artists. The famous masterpiece depicted on above stamps shows Bush's painting "Stripped Column" with the bright colours of Rainbow. Just Beautiful ! Have a look to these fabulous philatelic items on art !........Till Next Post......Have a Wonderful Time !

Jack Bush
Jack Bush was born in Toronto in 1909, he spent most of his childhood in Montreal. Bush began his professional career as a landscape artist in 1929, and ten years later, he ran a commercial art business by day and attended the Ontario College of Art by night. Most Canadian artists of the time were sheltered from foreign influence but Bush’s art changed dramatically upon seeing the work of American Abstract Expressionists in New York City.

The stamp brings together Bush’s complex and imaginative use of colour. The paintings entitled Striped Column (1964) and Chopsticks (1977) were chosen for their contrasting shape and colour, highlighting the boldness in one and the softness in the other. The photograph on the Souvenir Sheet provides a glimpse of the large scale of this Canadian painter’s art by showing Bush painting on a canvas alongside the step-ladder he often required to reach the top of his canvas.

Courtesy - Canada Post