Frank Bowling
Barticaborn I, 1967
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
235.6 x 121.9 cm
92 3/4 x 48 in
Framed: 236.5 x 124.9 cm
93 1/8 x 49 1/8 in
92 3/4 x 48 in
Framed: 236.5 x 124.9 cm
93 1/8 x 49 1/8 in
Exhibitions
'Frank Bowling The New York Years 1966-75', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Solo Show; 20 May – 10 September 2023'Black Abstractionists: From Then ‘til Now', Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas; Group Show; 8 October 2022 – 29 January 2023, reproduced in colour, medium as acrylic paint, spray paint and oil wax on canvas
'Frank Bowling', Tate Britain, London; Solo Show; 31 May – 26 August 2019, reproduced in colour, medium as acrylic paint, spray paint and oil wax on canvas, dimensions as 234 x 122.4 cm
'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power', Tate Modern, London; Group Show; 12 July - 22 October 2017
'The Map Paintings 1967–1971', Hales Gallery, London; Solo Show; 13 October - 23 November 2013, reproduced in colour, dated 1968
'The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945–1975', Kenkeleba Gallery, New York; Group Show; 19 May – 14 July 1991, fig. 47, reproduced in colour, entitled 'Bartica Born', dated 1968
Literature
Kikol, Larissa.‘Frank Bowling’, Kunstforum, Issue 303, June 2025, reproduced on pp. 204 - 213 (colour)Brace, Gemma. ‘More Water Than Land: Gemma Brace in conversation with Frank Bowling’, Frank Bowling: Penumbral Light, exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, 2022, pp. 15–26 and reproduced on p. 22 (colour)
Gooding, Mel. Frank Bowling, London 2021, reproduced on p. 68 (colour), dated 1968
Hirsch, Liz. 'Visual Chronology', Siegel, Katy (ed.). "The Heroine Paint": After Frankenthaler, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2015, reproduced on p. 132 (colour), dated 1968
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), entitled Barticaborn I
Gibson, Anne, Cannon, Steve, Bowling, Frank & McEvilley, Thomas, The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945–1975, exh. cat., Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, 1991, p. 100