Tangle Tree

 

Geoffrey Bowman

  1928 - 2009 (biography)

c. 1958  

color lithograph 

13 7/8 x 17 7/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

4 of 6  

titled in pencil, lower left 

 

grey laid Linweave Text 

published 

artist 

15246 

$650.00 

In 1948 after being discharged from the Navy, Bowman earned his high school equivalency diploma. Five years later he met and married his first wife Mill, and graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in Social Science. During this time he also became intensely interested in art and printmaking and began to study art formally. By 1957 Geoffrey had earned his graduate degree in art and began to teach art in San Quentin. In 1960 Bowman left his teaching job at San Quentin to spend more time working on his art and examining Asian philosophy at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. During this time to support himself and his wife Geoffrey drove a taxi at night so that he could have his days free to work in the studio.