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Jack Hamilton Bush 1909 - 1977 Canadian gouache and watercolour on paper Pleasant Day "22 3/4 x 31 3/8 inches 57.8 x 79.7 centimeters signed and dated 1953 and on verso signed, titled on the Grace Borgenicht Gallery and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries labels, dated and inscribed """"Lake of Bays / Toronto"""" Provenance:Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York Collection of William Mac Chambers, New York Collection of David and Annette Raddock, Colorado In 1952, Jack Bush took part in the Canadian Abstract Exhibition organised by Alexandra Luke at the Adelaide House in Oshawa. By the early 1950s, artists in Toronto had recognised that if abstraction were to earn credibility amongst critics and collectors, they would have to organise and promote the movement themselves. Over the next two years, Bush, Luke and several others began to hold exhibitions together, and in February of 1954, Painters Eleven held their first group show at the Roberts Gallery. By this ti e, Bush had released himself fully to abstraction, particularly to the style of New York abstraction which so attracted him. Although several of his watercolours painted in the same year remain anchored in realism, for Bush, the resolution of a formal, expressionistic language was paramount, and in Pleasant Day he has undeniably freed himself from literal representation. During his career, Bush emerged as one of Canada's most recognisable and iconic artists both at home and abroad. Like so many of his memorable works, Pleasant Day remains a powerful emblem of an enduring and sophisticated oeuvre. "