to Fame (Thames & Hudson, 1989), based on the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, 1989. Poetry and Painting: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and their Painter Friends (Clarendon Press, 1994), based on the Zaharoff Lecture for 1991–2. ‘Ten Good Years’ in Generation Painting 1955–65: British Art from the Collection of Sir Alan Bowness (The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, 2016). Filmed interviews Trewyn Studio (2015, dir. Helena Bonett). Sir Alan Bowness speaks about 'Generation Painting 1955-65' (2016, The Heong Gallery at Downing College, film by Jonathan Law). Memories of Barbara, Ben and the St Ives Modernists (2017, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives). References History of Tate: Directors of Tate Downing College entry External links Six excerpts from interviews with Alan Bowness, British Library National Life Stories for Artists' Lives: On London galleries in the 1950s: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/alan-bowness-on-london-galleries On abstract art and the 1954 publication Nine Abstract Artists: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/alan-bowness-on-abstract-artists On the small art world in the 1950s, teaching and working at the Arts Council of Great Britain: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/alan-bowness-on-american-abstract-expressionists On being shortlisted for the Tate Directorship in 1964 and Bryan Robertson: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/alan-bowness-on-the-shortlist-for-the-tate-directorship On the role of the museum director: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/alan-bowness-on-the-role-of-the-museum-director On Bryan Robertson and perceptions of Bowness: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/alan-bowness-on-bryan-robertson-and-the-tate-job Portraits of Bowness at the National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp143366/sir-alan-bowness 1928 births 2021 deaths 20th-century British male writers 20th-century British non-fiction writers 21st-century English male writers 21st-century British non-fiction writers Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge British art critics British curators Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Directors of the Tate galleries English art historians Knights Bachelor People educated at University College School People from Finchley