Abstract Painting by Richard Irving Bowman

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Abstract Painting by Richard Irving Bowman

About the Item

Richard Irving Bowman (1918–2001) was an abstract painter who worked primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. He painted in an idiosyncratic style inspired by transcendental visions of nature, exposure to surrealism and investigations into Sub-atomic physics. He is considered one of the first fine artists to employ fluorescent paint, which he maintained embodied Sub-atomic life energy, beginning in the early 1950s. Bowman was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1918. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago School in 1942, and received a master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1949. During the 1940s he taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. One of his students was the abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, with whom he exhibited and was romantically linked. In 1950 he was invited to teach in the newly formed art department at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. In 1954 he came to San Francisco at the invitation of Gordon Onslow Ford. From 1949- 1963 he taught intermittently at Stanford University in Stanford, CA. Bowman's reputation and success rose during the period from 1959-1977, when he exhibited continuously at the Rose Rabow Gallery Bowman was the subject of one-person shows at the Pinacotecha Gallery, New York (1947), The Stanford Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (1950,56) and the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (1961,1970). He exhibited at the Rose Rabow Gallery in San Francisco 1959-1977, and was associated with expatriate painters Gordon Onslow-Ford and other artists who coalesced around the space. He was a peripheral figure in the San Francisco Bay Area beat and abstract Expressionist scenes and was linked through friendship and aesthetics to the artist, publisher and scientist Bern Porter, and the poet Kenneth Patchen.

Creator:
Richard Bowman (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 49.88 in (126.7 cm)Depth: 2.38 in (6.05 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Paint,Wood
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
Late 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
Late 20th Century
Condition:
Excellent original condition.
Seller Location:
Fulton, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU5539221820762