Bowman, Ruth, 1923-

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role

Collector

dates

1923-

city

New York City

state

NY

other cities

Denver, CO;

sex

F

historical notes

Art historian Ruth Bowman collected artist’s self-portraits, built in collaboration with Harry Kahn (1916-1999).

Bowman and Kahn frequented galleries together, and established a collection comprising 187 works of 146 artists, all built on the notion of teaching.

The collection now belongs to the National Portrait Gallery and includes work by, among others, Louis Losowick, Andy Warhol, Thomas Hart Benton, Jim Dine, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Elaine de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg.

decades
of activity

1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
2000-2010

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03/22/2024 12:09:31

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Ruth Bowman papers, [ca. 1960- 2002].	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	WNYC Views on Art radio program interviews, 1967-1973.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Murals without walls [videorecording] / WNET/Thirteen; director, Alfred Broderick; producer, Elizabeth Davis; artistic consultant, Ruth Bowman.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Interviews relating to American Abstract Artists, 1963-1965.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Esther Robles interviews, 1981 Aug. 24-Aug. 31.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Otto Natzler interviews, 1980 July 7-1980 July 14.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Laura Andreson interview, 1981 May 20.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with William Woolfenden, 1983 Mar. 17.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with Miriam Schapiro, 1989 Sept. 10.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Kenneth Donahue interviews, 1981 Mar. 18 - Apr. 17	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Ray Eames interviews, 1980 July 28 - Aug. 20	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Herbert Bayer interview, 1981 Oct. 3.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Armand Hammer interview, 1980 Aug. 26	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Josine Ianco-Starrels interview, 1989 June 15.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with Constance Glenn, 1990 Mar. 16.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with Nicholas Wilder, 1988 July 18.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, 1964 Apr. 26.	see details...
The Newark Museum Library and Archives	Ruth Bowman Papers on Arshile Gorky "Murals Without Walls" Exhibition, 1930-1980	see details...