Frank Bowling
Cover Girl, 1966
Acrylic, oil, and silkscreened ink on canvas
149.8 x 101.6 cm
59 x 40 in
59 x 40 in
Exhibitions
'Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &…', Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Group Show; 16 October 2024 - 3 March 2025, reproduced in colour'Frank Bowling', Tate Britain, London; Solo Show; 31 May – 26 August 2019, reproduced in colour
'Bowling Through the Century: A Mini-Retrospective of Paintings by Frank Bowling', Yaa Asantewaa Art Gallery, London; Solo show; 5 - 20 June 1997, dated 1963/4
'My Generation: 10 Contemporary Abstract Artists', Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Group show; 28 October - 25 November 1989; Skelmersdale Library Art Centre, Lancashire, December 1989
Literature
Cornish, Sam. Frank Bowling: Sculpture, London, 2022, reproduced on p. 16 (colour)Hadler, Mona & Minioudaki, Kalliopi (eds.). Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties, London, 2022, pp. 204–5, 217 and reproduced on p. 24
Baring, Joe (ed.). Modern British Art: New Reflections, London 2022, p. 97, reproduced on p. 98 (colour), dated 1963-6
Gooding, Mel. Frank Bowling, London 2021, pp. 41–3, reproduced on p. 42 (colour), dimensions as 120.5 x 79 cm
Mercer, Kobena. 'The Longest Journey: Black Diaspora Artists in Britain', Art History, vol. 44, no. 3, 2021, p. 485, reproduced on p. 486 (colour)
Valentine, Victoria L. 'Six Decades of Color: First Major Retrospective of Frank Bowling Opens at Tate Britain in London', Culture Type, 1 June 2019, reproduced (colour)
Crippa, Elena (ed.). Frank Bowling, exh. cat., Tate Publishing: London, 2019, p. 26, 40, 86, 185–87
Gayford, Martin. Modernists & Mavericks, London: Thames & Hudson, 2019, pp.238-9
Mercer, Kobena. 'Charting the Atlantic Sublime', Enwezor, Okwui (ed.). Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi, exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Munich; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, 2017, pp. 46-53, reproduced on p. 47 (colour)