Harry Bowden

Harry Bowden (1907–1965) was an abstract painter who lived and worked both in New York and California. He showed in both help and solo exhibitions in Manhattan and San Francisco and was a founding aficionado of American Abstract Artists. He is known both for sufficiently abstract and for representative works, but the latter predominate. He later said a painter should embrace many ideas, symbols, forms, tones, and colors and through metamorphosis make them into a other thing — a painting having a cartoon of its own. Having taken happening photography as a mid-career hobby, he became as with ease known for his photographs as for his easel works.