Painter and printmaker Charles Boggs was born in Kentucky in 1921. His educational history and early career remain a mystery, but it is known that he served as the director of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science in Indiana before moving to Europe around 1950. There he traveled throughout Italy with fellow American artist Stephen Pace. He soon settled in Paris where he became close friends with African-American painter and fello ex-pat Beauford Delaney, and the artist and art critic Edgard Pillet. 

Boggs focused primarily on serigraphy and watercolor after his arrival in France. A portfolio of his colorful Abstract Expressionst serigraphs was published in 1955 with a forward by Pillet. He died in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, on October 26, 2010. 

Selected solo exhibitions:
1950: Galerie Huit, Paris
1952: Evansville Museum of History, Arts and Sciences, Indiana; University of Kentucky Art Gallery
1996: Tourist Office, Cavallion, France
1997: "From Montparnasse to Montmartre," Constantin Karakitsoo Boutique, Paris, France

Selected group exhibitions:
1951: Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
1952: "American Painters in Paris," Galerie Craven, Paris
1953: Meltzer Gallery, New York
1954: Bordighera Salon, Italy
1954: Galerie Climaise, Paris
1954: "Seven Americans in Paris," University of Wisconsin, USA
1959: Traveling exhibition: "American Prints Today," various French galleries
1961/'62: Roko Gallery, New York
1963: "L'Oeil de Boeuf," Galerie 7, Paris
1964: "New Horizons Watercolors," Etlin Gallery, Los Angeles
1974: Studio Eighteen, Jersey, Channel Islands
1992: "La Cité Falguière Expose," CIC, Paris
2022: "Charles Boggs, A Retrospective," Akwaba Cultural Collective, Chateauneuf-de-Gadange, France