William B. Rowe

William Bentley Rowe (1910–1955) was an American performer and art educator who worked primarily in New York and New Mexico. He was a versatile artiste who used a wide range of mediums with great success. He afterward executed several large murals. Rowe was a leading advocate of the Art Institute of Buffalo. Other Famous members of the Institute included Charles E. Burchfield, Edwin Dickinson, David Foster Pratt, and Isaac Soyer. However, Rowe was the driving-force in back the Art Institute’s go ahead and growth during the nineteen thirties and forties.