RICHARD BOWMAN ABSTRACT OIL ON CANVAS: (Richard Bowman, 1918-2001, America), oil and florescent oil on canvas, signed, titled: D-21 and dated (11-67) on face. Canvas: 32"h x 34"w.

Richard Irving Bowman (1918-2001, America) was an abstract painter who worked primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. 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 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 scene.

Bio excerpts taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Irving_Bowman. PROVENANCE: From the Travis D. Hall collection (many of the works from this collection were accepted as a donation into the Oakland Museum of Art, California). by inheritance to the D. Fjellin collection.

Free of chips, cracks and restorations.