Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 7880 2565
https://isni.org/isni/0000000078802565
Name: 
Bowling, Frank
Bowling, Frank (Guyanese painter and educator, born 1936)
Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling (artiste britannique)
Frank Bowling (Britischer Maler des Abstrakten Expressionismus und der Farbfeldmalerei)
Frank Bowling (British artist)
Frank Bowling (Brits kunstschilder)
Dates: 
1936-
Creation class: 
Language material
Creation role: 
author
Related names: 
Columbia University (isAffiliatedWith)
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (isAffiliatedWith)
Royal College of Art (Great Britain) (isAffiliatedWith)
Titles: 
According to Keitur Falls
Barticaflats Even Time
Clem's No. I
Frank Bowling
Giving Birth Astride a Grave
map paintings 1967-1971, The
Night Journey
Suncrush
Notes: 
African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Bowling, Frank; painter; born 29 February 1936 in Bartica, Guyana; was a founder of the Young Commonwealth Artists Group in England; graduated from the Royal College with a Master of Fine Arts degree (1962); served as vice president of the London Group of artists (1965); won the Senegal Grand Prize for Contemporary Art at the First World Festival of Negro Art, in Dakar (1966); received a Guggenheim Memorial fellowship (1967 and again in 1973); taught at Columbia University, the School of Visual Arts in New York; produced Middle Passage, which he described as autobiographical (1970); participated in the controversial exhibition Some American History (1970); contributed a series of articles on black art to Arts Magazine (1969-1971); was recognized as a leading painter in what became known as the Colour Field style (1970s); was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2005); was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to art (2008))
Art
Artists
Associated Group: Columbia University naf
Associated Group: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) naf
Associated Group: Royal College of Art (Great Britain) naf
College teachers
Painters
The map paintings 1967-1971, 2015 title page (Frank Bowling, OBE, RA) page 68 (born Bartica, British Guiana, 1936 ; education: Royal College of Art, London, UK, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK)
nuc87-66524: His Frank Bowling, paintings, 1983-1986, c1986 (hdg. on NRU rept.: Bowling, Frank, 1936-)
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