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{{Infobox artist<br />
| name = Eric Bowen<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1929}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death year and age|2002|1929}}<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| alma_mater = [[Delhi Polytechnic]]<br />
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'''Eric Hubert Bowen''' (1929–2002) was an [[India]]n artist known for his [[abstract art]].<ref name="dag">{{cite web |title=Eric Bowen |url=http://dagworld.com/artists/eric-bowen/ |publisher=DAG |accessdate=20 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="aaa">{{cite web |last1=Archive |first1=Asia Art |title=Meeting of Group 1890 |url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/collection/search/archive/gulammohammed-sheikh-archive-group-1890/object/meeting-of-group-1890-5541 |website=aaa.org.hk |publisher=[[Asia Art Archive]] |accessdate=20 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Born in [[Allahabad]] (now known as Prayagraj), [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]] (present-day [[Uttar Pradesh]]) in 1929, he received a national diploma in art from [[Delhi Polytechnic]] (now known as Delhi Technological University) in 1959.<ref name="gam">{{cite web |title=Eric Bowen |url=http://www.galleryartmotif.com/artist/eric-bowen |website=www.galleryartmotif.com |accessdate=20 January 2020}}</ref> He, along with [[Paramjit Singh (artist)|Paramjit Singh]], founded [[Group Unknown]], a group of young artists and sculptors based in Delhi.<ref name="dag"/> He studied art in [[Italy]] from 1962 to 1965 through a scholarship by the Italian government.<ref name="gam"/> He was a part of the [[Group 1890]] exhibition held in the year 1963, but was not present personally because of being in Italy.<ref name="forbes">{{cite web |last1=Singh |first1=Kishore |title=Indian art: The lasting strokes of Group 1890 |url=http://www.forbesindia.com/aperture/slideshow/indian-art-the-lasting-strokes-of-group-1890/44435/7#photo |website=[[Forbes India]] |accessdate=20 January 2020 |date=8 October 2016}}</ref><br />
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Bowen received a state sponsorship for study and travel from the [[Norway|Norwegian]] government in 1977, and settled with his wife in [[Oslo]].<ref name="dag"/><ref name="gam"/><ref name="forbes"/> He worked on "The Right to Life in Peace", a series of twelve paintings based on concerns about wars and violence, in 1985. The series includes quotations from [[Rabindranath Tagore]], [[Sankichi Toge]], etc. He received a grant from the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)|Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] for this series and it was exhibited in the [[United Nations Office at Geneva]]. Bowen is one of the subjects of the book ''Memory and Identity: Indian Artists Abroad''.<ref name="scroll">{{cite web |last1=Chaudhuri |first1=Zinnia Ray |title=The Indian artists who painted home with their brush strokes in a foreign land |url=https://scroll.in/magazine/826661/the-indian-artists-who-painted-home-with-their-brush-strokes-in-a-foreign-land |website=[[Scroll.in]] |accessdate=20 January 2020 |date=21 January 2017}}</ref> He died in the year 2002.<ref name="dag"/><br />
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Bowen's artistic style was initially inspired by construction and architecture, consisting of geometric structures like lines, two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces.<ref name="forbes"/> However, during his stay in Oslo, he switched to a ''[[tantra]]''-inspired style which includes tribal and folk art elements and consists of triangular and spherical shapes.<ref name="scroll"/> His works are part of the collections of the [[National Gallery (Norway)|National Gallery]], the [[Smithsonian Institution]], and the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]].<ref name="gam"/><ref name="dag"/><br />
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