Bowling, Frank, 1934-

LC control no.	n 87110639
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bowling, Frank, 1934- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bowling, Frank, 1936-
Associated country	Great Britain
Associated place	United States
Birth date	1934-02-26
Place of birth	British Guiana
Affiliation	Columbia University Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) Royal College of Art (Great Britain)
Profession or occupation	College teachers Painters Sculptors
Found in	nuc87-66524: His Frank Bowling, paintings, 1983-1986, c1986 (hdg. on NRU rept.: Bowling, Frank, 1936-) 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) 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)) Frank Bowling, 2021 : page 185 (Frank Bowling; born 26 February 1934, as was customary, baptismal certificate gives date of baptism as date of birth) Hauser&Wirth, WWW site, viewed November 05, 2021 (Frank Bowling; born Bartica, Guyana, 1934) <https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/30000-frank-bowling>