Dallas Museum of Art Acquires Its First Painting by Seminal Artist Frank Bowlin

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of Marcia H Travels (1970), the first work in the DMA’s collection by the Guyanese-born British painter Frank Bowling. Bowling, widely celebrated for his contributions to the field of abstraction and his advocacy of black artists internationally, created a number of paintings in the 1970s characterized by his use of world maps as organizational tools to explore color as its own subject-a recurring theme in his work.


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