What is Alan Bowness?
[[File:Sir Alan Bowness, 2016. Photo Gautier Deblonde..jpg|right|200px|thumb|Alan Bowness in 2016]] '''Sir Alan Bowness''' [[CBE]] (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021)<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5484753.ece The Times] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629132544/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5484753.ece |date=2011-06-29 }} 10 January 2009, Retrieved 9 January 2010</ref> was a British art historian, art critic and museum director. He was the director of the [[Tate Gallery]] between 1980 and 1988. Bowness was born in [[Finchley]], [[Middlesex]]. Bowness died on 1 March 2021 at his home in [[London]], aged 93.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/former-tate-director-sir-alan-bowness-dies-aged-93-40146126.html|title = Former Tate director Sir Alan Bowness dies aged 93|last = Horton|first = Tom|agency = [[Press Association]]|newspaper = [[Belfast Telegraph]]|date = 1 March 2021|access-date = 1 March 2021}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowness, Alan}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Art historians]] [[Category:English historians]] [[Category:British critics]] [[Category:Writers from Middlesex]] {{bio-stub}}