Join the AGO in celebrating the publication Jack Bush Painting: A Catalogue Raisonné. Sarah Stanners, author and director of the catalogue raisonné will be joined by contributing essayist Karen Wilkin, Adam Welch, AGO Associate Curator of Modern Art and David Mirvish for a roundtable discussion about the legacy of the artist.

Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné

The JBCR spans six decades of work, and included 1,850 documented paintings in a four volume boxed edition.The publication contains 1,600 colour reproductions of paintings, hundreds of archival images and the first biography of the artist. The publication was written and produced with the approval of the Estate of Jack Bush and published by David Mirvish Books in conjunction with Coach House Press, designed by Barr Gilmore, production by Type A Print.

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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. 

Prior to joining the AGO in 2023 as Associate Curator, Modern Art, Adam Welch held various curatorial roles at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recent curatorial projects include the 2022 retrospective General Idea, Joseph Beuys (2015–17), The Advent of Abstraction (2016–17), and the Indigenous and Canadian Galleries at the NGC (2017). He holds an MA from Columbia University, and a PhD in the history of art from the University of Toronto, where he is a Status-Only Assistant Professor. 

Karen Wilkin is a New York-based independent curator and critic specializing in 20th-century modernism. Educated at Barnard College and Columbia University, she is a regular contributor to The New Criterion, Art in America and The Wall Street Journal; contributing editor for Art, The Hudson Review. Her publications include monographs on Paul Cezanne, Georges Braque, Giorgio Morandi, Stuart Davis, Jack Bush, Anthony Caro and David Smith. She has organized numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally on artists including Stuart Davis, Anthony Caro, David Smith, Hans Hofmann, Milton Avery, Judith Rothschild, and Helen Frankenthaler. Teaching experience has included the University of Toronto and the State University of New York, Purchase. Wilkin teaches in the MFA program of the New York Studio School. 

In September 1963, David Mirvish opened the David Mirvish Gallery in Toronto. Over the next 15 years, through presenting some 130 exhibitions, the gallery became one of the focal points of Toronto’s cultural life and achieved international renown as a showcase for contemporary Canadian, American and British art. In 1978 the gallery ceased public exhibitions, and continues to this day, to lend works to art galleries and museums. Over 60 years, David and Audrey Mirvish have built a collection that continues to focus on the work of Jack Bush, Anthony Caro, Ron Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Robert Murray, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Tim Scott, David Smith and Frank Stella.