Jack Bush paintings of the 1950s and 60s are characterized by their simplified, flat compositions made up of coloured bands. He began to explore this new style of painting after meeting Clement Greenberg in the late 1950s, when Greenberg "suggested that he simplify his art in order to discover what was essential to it" (Fenton, 1970). Bush was known for “thinly-painted areas, often in parallel bands that form a central column or… align with one edge of the painting.” A 1970 exhibition catalogue describes how “there is a kind of openness and nakedness to the colour in Bush’s paintings… There is… a richness of relationship across and within the surfaces of his pictures" (Fenton, 1970). Painted in the same year that Bush officially retired from being a commercial artist, this work is a wonderful example of a painter entering his prime.

The work is included in Dr. Sarah Stanner’s Jack Bush Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné.