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Alan Bowness was born on 11 January, 1928 in Finchley, Middlesex, England, is a British art historian (1928–2021). Discover Alan Bowness's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Occupation Art historian · museum director · art critic
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 11 January, 1928
Birthday 11 January
Birthplace Finchley, Middlesex, England
Date of death 1 March, 2021
Died Place London, England
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1928

Sir Alan Bowness CBE (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021) was a British art historian, art critic, and museum director.

1946

Leaving school at the end of the war, he worked with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit and the Friends’ Service Council in England, Germany and Lebanon from 1946 to 1950.

1950

From 1950 to 1953, he studied Modern Languages at Downing College, Cambridge.

Bowness was active as an art critic in the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for The Observer, Arts (New York), Art News and Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Burlington Magazine.

His collection of paintings by British artists, 1950–70 (Scott, Lanyon, Heron, Hilton, and others), is bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and his art history library to Cambridge University Library.

Bowness died at his home in London on 1 March 2021, at age 93.

Bowness's publications include:

1953

From 1953 to 1955, he was a postgraduate student at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, specialising in nineteenth-century French art.

1956

He became a Regional Art Officer for the Arts Council in 1956, with responsibilities for the South West of England.

In April that year, he visited St Ives, Cornwall, where he met artists who had settled there, including; Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, and Patrick Heron.

1957

In 1957, Bowness married Sarah Hepworth-Nicholson, daughter of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.

In 1957 Bowness began teaching at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

1959

Introduction, Four English Middle Generation Painters: Heron / Frost / Wynter / Hilton (Waddington Galleries, May 1959).

1960

During the 1960s, Bowness co-curated two major exhibitions of contemporary art at the Tate Gallery, London, 54:64 Painting and Sculpture of a Decade (1964) (with Lawrence Gowing) and Recent British Painting (1967) (with Norman Reid and Lilian Somerville).

During the 1960s and 1970s he also curated exhibitions for the Arts Council, including Vincent van Gogh (1968), Rodin (1970), French Symbolist Painters (1972), and Gustave Courbet (1978, with Michel Laclotte), as well as Post-Impressionism (Royal Academy, London and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979–80).

Between 1960 and 1970, Bowness published complete catalogues of the sculpture of Barbara Hepworth.

1961

Catalogue of works in J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth (Lund Humphries, 1961).

1963

Retrospectives he curated of contemporary artists for the Tate Gallery include; Ivon Hitchens (1963), Jean Dubuffet (1966), Peter Lanyon (1968), and William Scott (1972).

1964

William Scott: Paintings (Lund Humphries, 1964).

1965

Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, vol. 2 (Lund Humphries, revised edition, 1965) to vol. 6 (Lund Humphries, 1988).

1967

He became a Reader in 1967 and a Professor in 1978.

Alan Davie (Lund Humphries, 1967).

1968

Peter Lanyon (Tate Gallery, 1968).

1972

His popular book Modern European Art (1972) has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Korean.

1975

Following the artist’s death in 1975, Bowness ran the Hepworth Estate.

1976

In accordance with Hepworth’s wishes, he oversaw the opening of her former house and studio in St Ives as the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1976.

He was made a CBE in 1976 and knighted in 1988.

He was also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Downing College, Cambridge.

1980

He was the director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988.

Bowness was born in Finchley to Kathleen (née Benton) and George Bowness, a school teacher.

He was educated at University College School in Hampstead.

Between 1980 and 1988 Bowness was Director of the Tate Gallery.

During this time he realised the expansion of Tate’s Millbank site by creating the Clore Wing to display the work of J.M.W. Turner, uniting the collection which had been divided between the British Museum and the Tate.

1984

The Turner Prize was established under Bowness’s directorship in 1984 as an initiative to foster interest in contemporary British art.

After retiring from the Tate, Bowness became Director of the Henry Moore Foundation, setting up the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Yorkshire.

1988

He instigated the creation of Tate Liverpool, which opened in May 1988.

At a time when the Tate’s public grant had been capped, Bowness established patrons’ groups to fund the purchase of historic and contemporary work.

The Tate’s collection of post-war American and European art grew especially substantially during this time.

1993

Bowness also began the preparations for the Tate St Ives (opened in 1993).

2008

Since 2008 the Hepworth Estate has been run by his daughter, art historian Sophie Bowness.