Spain #1
1962
Artist, Canadian, 1909 - 1977
Artwork overview
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Medium
Magna on canvas
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
2015.143.24
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
upper left reverse: Spain #1 / Jack Bush / Summer 1962 / Magna
Wikidata ID
Q46637247