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Richard Irving Bowman

Richard Irving Bowman (1918 - 2001) was active/lived in California, Illinois.  Richard Bowman is known for Abstract imagery, gestural, printmaking.

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 1949, he moved to the Bay Area at the invitation of Gordon Onslow Ford, where he received a year long appointment teaching at Stanford University in Stanford, CA. In 1950 he was invited to t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7459 characters.]  Artist bio

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