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BUSH, Norton (1834 - 1894). A Memory of the Tropics. Oil on canvas. Canvas size: approx. 39 x 29 inches; framed size: 45 3/4 x 36 inches.Signed and dated l.r.: 'N. Bush 1874.' Provenance: Private Collection, Carlsbad, California. Norton Bush was born in 1834 in Rochester, New York, where he studied painting with local artist James Harris. He moved to New Yok City at the age of sixteen and continued to study art, working under artist Jasper Gropsey. Bush heard of the artistic fervor in South America, and journeyed to California by way of Vanderbilt?s route through Nicaragua.?Eventually relocating to San Francisco permanently, Bush visited South America on two other occasions, and the paintings he produced during his travels established him as California?s premier painter of the tropics.