Frank Bowling
Mel Edwards Decides, 1968
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
293 x 261 cm
115 3/8 x 102 3/4 in
115 3/8 x 102 3/4 in
Photo: Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Exhibitions
'Black Earth Rising', Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Group show; 18 May - 21 September 2025'Rupture and Connection', Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; Group Show; 8 June - 22 September 2024
'Frank Bowling The New York Years 1966-1975', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Solo Show; 20 May – 10 September 2023; 'Frank Bowling’s Americas', Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston; Solo Show; 22 October 2022 – 9 April 2023, reproduced in colour
'Frank Bowling', Tate Britain, London; Solo Show; 31 May - 26 August 2019, reproduced in colour
'Mappa Mundi', Haus der Kunst, Munich; Solo Show; 23 June 2017 - 7 January 2018; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 24 March - 8 July 2018; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, 29 September 2018 - 12 January 2019, reproduced in colour
'The Map Paintings 1967–1971', Hales Gallery, London; Solo Show; 13 October - 23 November 2013, reproduced in colour
'Frank Bowling: Selected Paintings 1967-77', The Acme Gallery, London; Solo Show; 15 April - 7 May 1977, catalogue no. 2, dated 1969, dimensions as 120 x 120 in
Literature
Cornish, Sam. Frank Bowling: Sculpture, London 2022, reproduced on p. 38 (colour)
Whyte, Murray. ‘At the MFA, ‘Frank Bowling’s Pivotal Show at MFA’, Boston Sunday Globe, 30 October 2022, reproduced on p. n.6 (colour)
Gooding, Mel. Frank Bowling, London 2021, reproduced on p. 69 (colour)
Martin, Courtney J. (ed.). Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2016, p. 83
Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston, exh. cat., Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists,
Boston, 1970, unpaginatedBowling, Frank. 'The Rupture: Ancestor Worship, Revival, Confusion, or Disguise', Arts Magazine, vol. 44, no. 8, Summer 1970, p. 34