Charles William Bush
- Date of birth
- 1919
- Date of death
- 1989
- Notes
- Charles William Bush was born in Melbourne in 1919, and after apprenticing to his signwriter father at age 14, he gained a place at the National Gallery School. Bush served in the Second World War, eventually being employed as a war artist in New Guinea and Timor. Bush worked with Meninsky while in London on a British Council Grant in 1949 and then travelled in Europe before returning to Melbourne and becoming drawing master at the National Gallery School 1953-54. He founded the Leveson Street Gallery in Melbourne in 1962. Bush was well known as a painter and gallery director. He produced only a few prints, mostly linocuts and monotypes. He won the Grace Joel Prize for a nude painting in 1940, the Wynne Landscape Prize in 1952 and 1955 and the Crouch Prizes for oil and water colour twice. Bush died in Melbourne in 1989.
