Feathers
1974
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acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 225.43 × 111.44 cm (88 3/4 × 43 7/8 in.) framed: 228.6 × 114.62 × 4.13 cm (90 × 45 1/8 × 1 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Joe and Lucia Henderson)
Accession Number
2015.19.189
Art Historical Context
**Feathers** (1974) by Jack Bush is a vibrant acrylic on canvas painting, measuring an impressive 225.43 × 111.44 cm, now part of the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran Collection, gifted by Joe and Lucia Henderson. Created late in Bush's career, this tall, vertical composition exemplifies his mastery of abstraction during a pivotal era for Canadian art. Bush, a Toronto-based painter (1909–1977), was a founding member of the Painters Eleven group in the 1950s, which championed abstract expressionism in Canada amid post-war artistic fervor. By the 1970s, his style evolved into lyrical Color Fi...