RICHARD BOWMAN

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

1949 University of Iowa, MFA
1944 Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
1942 Art Institute of Chicago, Diploma


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000 Rock & Sun Paintings 1943-1950, Steve Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1986 Retrospective, Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1957-77 Rose Rabow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1972 Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM
1970 Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (also 1961)
1956 Retrospective, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA (also 1950)
1949 Bern Porter Gallery, Sausalito, CA
Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA
1946 Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, WI
1945 Pinacotheca Gallery (Rose Fried Gallery), New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 Poetic Abstractions, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA
1998 Memorial to Lee Mullican, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Through the Light, JFK University Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA (four-person show with Gordon Onslow-Ford, Lee Mullican and John Anderson)
1990 Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco, CA (with Emerson Woelffer)
1987 Museum of Contemporary Art, New Dehli, India
1986 Inner Visions, Wright Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Galerie Schreiner, Basel, Switzerland
1965 Fifty Artists from Fifty States, Burpee Art Gallery, Rockford, IL (traveling)
1964 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (also 1962)
1961 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1959 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
(with Gordon Onslow-Ford)
1956 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1954 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
1953 Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Western Canadian Art Circuit (also 1952)
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (also 1951)
1952 Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal, Canada (also 1951)
Canadian Scociety of Graphic Arts, Toronto, Canada
Richardson Gallery Winnipeg, Canada
1949 San Francisco Museum of Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1948 Joslyn Memorial Museum, Omaha, NE
1947 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (also 1945, 1944, 1941, 1939)
University of Illinois, IL (with Joan Mitchell)
Burpee Art Gallery, Rockford, IL (with Joan Mitchell)
1945 Art Institute of Chicago, IL (with Russell Woeltz)
1944 Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1943 Ras-Martin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
1941 Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1939 Art Institute of Chicago, IL

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, TX
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
The Smart Museum, University of Chicago, IL

AWARDS

1972 Gift of Time Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, NM
1945 William Franch Memorial Gold Medal, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1942 Ryerson Traveling Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1986 Richard Bowman: Forty Years of Abstract Painting, K. R. Eagles-Smith,
Editor, Harold Allen Parker, Publisher, in association with Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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