Spain #1, 1962

Not on View

Medium

Magna on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 177.17 × 237.81 cm (69 3/4 × 93 5/8 in.)

framed: 180.34 × 242.57 cm (71 × 95 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Vincent Melzac)

Accession Number

2015.143.24

Artists / Makers

Jack Bush (artist) Canadian, 1909 - 1977

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Inscription

upper left reverse: Spain #1 / Jack Bush / Summer 1962 / Magna

Provenance

(Robert Elkon Gallery, New York).[1] Vincent Melzac [1914-1989], Falls Church, Virginia; gift 1 December 1969 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The Elkon Gallery lent the painting to a 1963-1964 travelling exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Elkon Gallery, Robert
Melzac, Vincent

Exhibition History

1963: Fifteen Canadian Artists, traveling exhibition in the U.S. and Canada, 13 venues, organized by the Canadian Advisory Committee and circulated under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1963-1965, no. 2 on list of Bush paintings in the exhibition.

1965: Colorists: 1950-1965, San Fransisco Museum of Art, 15 October - 21 November 1965.