Gary Bower is an American artist born in Dayton, Ohio, on May 10, 1940. He received his undergraduate and MFA degrees from Ohio State University.askART website. http://www.askart.com/artist/Gary_David_Bower/100897/Gary_David_Bower.aspx Accessed [July 12, 2017].
His paintings incorporate a blend of figurative and abstract imagery with an impressive use of color.Gary Bower/Art Works. http://www.garybowerart.com/index-montauk/ Accessed [July 14, 2017].Glueck, Grace. "George Segal's Plaster People" in The New York Times, April 27, 1984(paragraph 10). Accessed July 14, 2017. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American ArtWhitney Museum of American Art website. http://collection.whitney.org/artist/159/GaryBower Accessed [July 12, 2017]. and other public and private collections.askART website. http://www.askart.com/artist/Gary_David_Bower/100897/Gary_David_Bower.aspx Accessed [July 12, 2017].Gary Bower website. http://www.garybowerart.com/about/ Accessed [July 12, 2017]. He has "held several positions, including serving as the director at the School of the Arts in Lacoste, France; visiting artist positions at the School of the Chicago Art Institute, Bard College, and the University of California, Davis, CA; and Staff Critic in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at major museums and galleries throughout the United States."Ann Tower Gallery website. http://anntowergallery.com/&/gary-bower/ Accessed [July 12, 2017].
Bibliography
Bell, Tiffany. After Matisse, Catalogue for exhibit of same title. New York: Independent Curators, Inc. 1986 Berlind, Robert. Gary Bower at the New Gallery Art In America. May/June 1978 Gary Bower at Max Protetch. Art In America. January 1981 Collings, Betty. Moving the Margin, Catalogue for exhibit of same title. Akron, OH: Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, 1990 Gibson, Eric. Points of View, Four Painters, Catalogue for the show of the same title organized by Susan Sollins for Independent Curators, Inc., New York, 1984 Glueck, Grace. Gary Bower and Joseph Santore, The New York Times. April 27, 1984 Ratcliff, Carter. Gary Bower. Catalogue, The Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1974 Gary Bower at the New Gallery. Art in America. May/June 1978 Rubin, David S. Gary Bower, Idealist in Twentieth Century Painting. Catalogue exhibit Gary Bower, Abstract Paintings, 1968 – '93 Cleveland CCA, Cleveland OH, 1994 Sundell, Nina. Gary Bower: Abstraction and Image. Catalogue for show of the same name, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 1982
References
External links Gary Bower/Art Works Gary Bower at Ann Tower Gallery Gary Bower in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition After Matisse, 1984 to 1988, Curated by Tiffany Bell Review of Gary Bower and Joseph Santoreby by Grace Glueck, The New York Times, April 27, 1984, (paragraph 10)