Name

Charles Bush

Culture

Australian

Gender

Male

Birth date

23 November 1919

Birth place

Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Death date

November 1989

Death Place

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Movements

UK, Europe 1950-51; China 1956; UK, Europe, Egypt, Mexico, USA since 1961

Occupations

Art gallery owner | Artist (painter) | Artist (water-colouristist) | Drawer | Printmaker | Sculptor

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC). Etchings, linocuts, monotypes

NGA IRN

13419

Context

Australia

Biography

Charles Bush

Born in Melbourne, Victoria 23 November 1919, Charles William Bush studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne from 1934 to 1938. He was an official war artist between 1943 and 1946. In London on a British Council Grant in 1949 he worked with Meninsky, before travelling around Europe. Bush returned to Melbourne and became Drawing Master at the National Gallery School 1953-54. In 1962 he founded the Leveson Street Gallery in Melbourne. Bush was well known as a painter and gallery director. He produced only a few prints, mostly linocuts and monotypes. 

© Australianprints, 1986

Last Updated

02 Aug 2021