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Bowman, Ruth, 1923- print view 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 updated 10/31/2024 13:33:22 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Ruth Bowman papers, 1936-2006, bulk 1963-1999 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 American Abstract Artists records, 1936-1983 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Esther Robles, 1981 August 24-31 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Otto Natzler, 1980 July 7-14 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Laura Andreson, 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 Oral history interview with Kenneth Donahue, 1981 March 18-April 17 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Ray Eames, 1980 July 28-August 20 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Herbert Bayer, 1981 October 3 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Armand Hammer, 1980 Aug. 26 see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Josine Ianco-Starrels, 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... see also: Kahn, Harry «  back