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Harry Bush:
Summer Morning - View from the Artist's House at 19 Queensland Avenue, London SW19
Framed (ref: 10479)

Oil on canvas 

Signed and dated 1953 lower right 

102 x 127cm (40 x 50 in.)

Tags: Harry Bush oil flowers Garden houses landscape trees Garden Museum

Provenance: Christie's, 28 September 1984, lot 80

Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1953, no. 144. 

Bush saw the ancestry of his art in the quiet dignity of Dutch and Flemish domestic scenes, and, as his younger daughter recalled, mixed pigments and oils, 'so that his work should mellow, glow and last, and if possible, improve' (The Art of the Garden, Tate, 2004, p. 85)

Bush's paintings so obviously mirror the ordinary world we see around us in the U.K (the houses are very specific to England – even London suburbia). His gift is to take that ‘reality’ beyond the immediate to something still and satisfying, yet still rooted in and expressed through, the everyday.

We are grateful to Peter Quartermaine for his assistance.

Exhibited: Sanctuary, Artist-Gardeners, 1919-39, Garden Museum, London, 25th February – 5 April, 2020

Literature: Christopher Woodward, Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners, 1919–1939, published by Liss Llewellyn, 2020