This fall marks the publication of the Jack Bush Catalogue Raisonné, a pinnacle of Canadian art publishing that includes a comprehensive accounting of every painted artwork by the beloved modern artist.

Sarah Stanners, author, and Amy Furness, the AGO’s Rosamond Ivey Special Collections Archivist and Head, Library & Archives provide a glimpse behind the scenes of this epic research journey, which started nearly 20 years ago in the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives. From a chance encounter with Bush’s record books as a graduate student to careful sleuthing with 35mm slides, the artist’s archives have been essential to Stanners’ work on the project.

Following the talk, please join us for a viewing of Jack Bush’s record books, part of the Jack Bush fonds at the AGO.

Sarah Stanners earned her Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of Toronto where she is now an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art History. She began her career in the arts as Assistant Curator of the Hart House Permanent Collection (2003-2005) and by 2014 she had co-curated the nationally-touring Jack Bush retrospective with the National Gallery of Canada's then Director & CEO, Marc Mayer. From 2015 to 2018, she served as the Chief Curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection where she partnered with the Esker Foundation to organize another touring exhibition, Jack Bush: In Studio. Dr. Stanners has published widely on modern and contemporary art topics, with a special focus on post-war abstract art.

Amy Marshall Furness is the Rosamond Ivey Special Collections and Archivist and Head, Library & Archives at the AGO, where she leads the collection development and public programs of the E.P. Taylor Library & Archives.