Photo captions by Phil Johnson, a longtime friend of Michael Bowen and a patron of his art.
Click here to read Marlena Donohue’s evaluation of Michael Bowen’s life and art from the Bruce blog.”
Michael in Indian Head Dress: this is from Life magazine in 1967 article on the Hippy movement.
Michael in Kristiansand, Norway museum show with one of his early pieces. This is from the Radar Wennesland collection which was donated to a two schools in Kristiansand. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art turned down the collection of over 500 works of art back in the 70’s as they did not see enough art “of worth”. Now this collection is considered the definitive collection of Beat art. Bowen is the most represented artist in the collection.