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Jack Hamilton Bush 1909 - 1977 Canadian oil on board Transition "16 x 22 3/4 inches 40.6 x 57.8 centimeters signed and dated 1948 and on verso titled on a label Literature:Karen Wilkin, Jack Bush, 1984, page 16 Provenance:Private Collection, Vancouver By the end of World War II in 1945, it was evident that Jack Bush was becoming one of the most accomplished painters in Canada. Bush's paintings by the mid to late 1940s were displaying specific traits and characteristics that would stay with his work throughout his career. As exemplified in Transition, Bush's growing affinity for pinks and blues highlighted with white became apparent in the 1940s, in addition to downward-sweeping diagonals that gave the sensation of movement. By 1947, Bush had abandoned his figurative paintings in order to focus on painting emotive abstracted works. In 1949, Bush had a solo exhibition at the Gavin Henderson Gallery in Toronto, titled New Paintings by Jack H. Bush. Critics were impressed with the de elopment and progression in his work. Pearl McCarthy, in her review of the exhibition in the Globe and Mail, wrote, "While the new paintings tend toward the abstract, the canyons and mysterious figures will thrill even those usually afraid of the abstract." "